many thanks for the helpful replies to my posting of last week regarding a short intro. however, there doesn't seem much point to posting a summary, albeit I'm happy to do if so asked.
one point raised, however, needs a reply. a question was asked whether or not what the note called the `Linux encoding' (a bi-directional UCS-2/US-ASCII mapping, and clearly a hack not a standard) exists in Linux. the best answer is a reference to current Linux source code. so, via the LXF project, the following URL is the /*comment*/ in the Linux `fat' filesystem describing an un-named encoding identical to the `Linux encoding': http://lxr.linux.no/source/fs/fat/dir.c?v=2.5.49#L33 parts of the implementation (functional C code) are nearby. again, thanks for the help and opinions. cheers! -blf- -- «How many surrealists does it take to | Brian Foster Montpellier, change a lightbulb? Three. One calms | [EMAIL PROTECTED] France the warthog, and two fill the bathtub | Stop E$$o (ExxonMobile)! with brightly-colored machine tools.» | http://www.stopesso.com -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
