Re: Global LC_CTYPE and file names

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote on 1999-09-16 13:19 UTC:
> So all users on the system have the same LC_CTYPE?

As long as they want to share any non-ASCII plaintext (including from
foreign file systems): YES.

Otherwise, it is not necessary (but still a very good idea) to have a
common LC_CTYPE.

If you really have a huge server that has a WinNT file system, and half
of the user want to have LC_CTYPE=ISO8859-15 and the other half wants
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8, then the solution would probably to mount the file
system twice under the two different encodings. However, I'd rather see
a real world requirement for such a scenario before we invest any effort
into implementing it.

Markus

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