On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > misunderstood me and decided that I propose to use code page 20866 > > instead of 1251 for russian locale under Wine. But that's not the case. > > I only proposed to create filenames on disk in encoding used natively > > in Linux. > I think that the right way is to have code conversion option in > wine.config, as one of Wine mount options. That way we will be able > to handle most weird configuration (like UTF-8 on native Linux, cp 1251 > on removable media).
So if I understand correctly, Linux does not provide a uniform interface to the filesystem. I.e. if I do 'touch ~/foo' where foo contains weird characters I must make sure these are the right characters for the codepage used by ~, and then if I do 'touch /mnt/win98/foo', then I must change 'foo' so that its characters now match the 1251 codepage, and I may have to rewrite foo yet again for 'touch /zipdrive/foo'. Urgh. This is certainly ugly. I thought that Linux would be taking UTF-8 or something like it for all filesystems and then do the codepage conversions itself depending on the underlying filesystem. I thought that this was the point of having all the codepage information in the kernel for fat filesystems. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" -- Linus Torvalds
