Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

[Martin Kochanski <unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your response....

Is a user able to change locales without rebuilding the filesystem?

If so, then if a user changes locales (for example from Latin-1 to UTF8), does this mean that all existing filenames [with accented letters] suddenly become undisplayable because what was valid as a Latin-1 string is no longer valid as UTF8; or is there some more persistent concept of "the locale of a filesystem" that protects against this problem?

- Martin Kochanski.
At 21:20 18/09/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Martin Kochanski writes:
>
>> how can a poor innocent server discover enough about the
>> context in which it is running to know what filename it has to
>> use so that a
>> user who lists a file directory will see "Rêve" on his screen?
>
>Since it depends on the user's locale, you'll have to convert the
>filename from the given encoding to the user's locale encoding.
>Start out with
>
>     const char *given_encoding = "UTF-8";
>     // or "UTF-16", depends on what you have
>     const char *localedependent = "";
>     // shortcut for glibc or libiconv
>     iconv_t cd = iconv_open (localedependent, given_encoding);
>     ...
>
>Bruno
>
>
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