Re: NFS4 requires UTF-8

["Oyvind A. Holm" <sunny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-02-20 00:12 Markus Kuhn wrote:

> I just spottet in section 1.1.3 of RFC 3030 (NFS version 4 Protocol)
> the following requirement: "file and directory names are encoded with
> UTF-8".

That’s incredibly good news. At last there is any development in
the mess of 8-bit file names. This is a topic which should be adressed
actively, the question is on what level translation should be done.
Haven’t follwed this dicussion lately, but how is the future of
8-bit filenames under Linux? At the moment I have to enter UTF-8
sequences manually when I want 8-bit filenames. I once avoided using
that kind of stuff in file names, but now that UTF-8 has arrived,
I’m tired of waiting. I’ll admit it has got me into some
trouble. Especially when moving a directory tree over to cfs (cryptfs)
on Debian I had some files with Norwegian-specific characters (æøåÆØÅ)
in it. The files got moved to the encrypted file system, but I’m
not able to read them because of Debian bug #44516. Well.

So: Do you think it’s long time until we can enter 8-bits
characters in programs when saving files, and it will be stored as
UTF-8 in the file system? Or is this a unwanted feature? Thinking about
the ability to read file names with invalid UTF-8 sequences. I know
this is a topic for endless discussions, but what is the status on this
at the moment?

Mvh
Øyvind

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