I know that for DOS/windows file systems you can set a charset for the global system. Maybe yo should also be able to do that for the native linux systems on a filesystem wide basis.
I understand that there is no charset or locale attribute per se in linux/uinx/posix filesystems and APIs. An the kerne does not know which charset the directory entries are in. Or does the kernel know that for the dos/win fs? If so you could also have kernel knowledge of native fs charset. And wrapper APIs from userland could convert to the fs charset from a locale/ charset of the running program before calling the actual kernel API. I think we may be heading for a mess if we dont do something like that. utf8 as the system encoding is imminent on Linux, and all the native filesystems are in other encodings, such as iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15 in my case. Kind regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
