Glenn Maynard writes:
> > convert its filemanes using the kernel nls modules; yes,
> > it could be done.
>
> But would be somewhat tricky, since filenames need to be
8-bit clean
> except for / and NULL.  It's a bag of worms with very
little value ...

This is a non-issue. All locale encodings used on Linux, from
ISO-8859-* over BIG5 to GB18030, use the bytes 0x2f and 0x00 only
for '/' and '\0' respectively.

The '/' is a problem with ISO-2022 based encodings, but noone
with
a brain in his head uses them as locale encodings.

Bruno


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