Re: NFS4 requires UTF-8

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:39:26 +0100,
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Some other fs (joliet extensions to iso9660, vfat, ntfs,...) have some
> info about the charset used in the filesystem (either by telling it somewhere,
> or by making mandatory the used of a given charset).
> So, with those fs you *know* what letters are part of their name (they are
> not just "bytes", they are known letters) and can, if needed, convert to
> display them in your encoding.

We will need a consistent and relyable unique conversion table between
Unicode and each legacy encoding.  Otherwise, one file (whose name was
encoded in a legacy encoding) will have different name in Unicode
depending on where we converted the filename (Windows? Java? Mac?
Linux?).

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