Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> By the way, you should be aware that filesystems have their own
> encodings which can different from the default system encoding
> (depending on how it's declared in /etc/fstab). I don't know of a
> simple way to retrieve the encoding for a given directory (except
> trying to find out the filesystem mounting point and parsing
> /etc/fstab... *sigh*). This can be annoying when handling non-ascii
> filenames.
I believe the intent is to set up all filesystems to use the same
encoding externally. The encoding setting exists only for some
filesystems, especially those which use UTF-16 internally, where
it would be impossible to physically store filenames in the default
system encoding, or where the filesystem is likely to be created
on a different system with a different encoding.
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
\__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/
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