Re: NFS4 requires UTF-8

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20020221100824.GA18781@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> sorry, but that is just plain impossible. For one thing, the "c" can 
> quite well be U+04AB, CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES, ditto for other 
> letters. But I agree that normalization can save us a lot of headache.
> 

It could cause more headache than it solves, especially when you find
out that some clients fold filenames differently than others.  I would
highly advice against considering filenames as anything other than an
anonymous stream of bytes, and leave the interpretation to higher
layers.

	-hpa
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