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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:28:45PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 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 problem is that iso-8859-1 for example doesn't define chars
in the range 0x80-0x9f; so, if the fs is tagged as being in iso-8859-1,
those values cannot be used --> it is not 8bit clean.
 
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