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Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:25:37AM +0100, Martin Kochanski wrote:
> Thank you for your response....
>
> Is a user able to change locales without rebuilding the filesystem?
>
s/rebuilding/remounting/
No.
> 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existing filenames [with accented letters] suddenly become undisplayable because what was valid as a Latin-1 string is no longer valid as UTF8; or is there some more persistent concept of "the locale of a filesystem" that protects against this problem?
There is a concept of "filesystem encoding" (NLS), but it requires
root assistance, and does not solve the problem of two users
having different locales, accessing the same filesystem - considering
this situation, the only possible solution is to have filenames
in UTF-8, and applications (such as ls) aware of it.
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