Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:57:43AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> 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.

No, the only possible solution is for all terminals UTF-8, too, and ls
continues printing filenames as it is now.

If I have a file "héllo" in UTF-8, and my terminal is ISO-8859-1, and ls
"helpfully" recodes that for me, and I type "cat héllo", cat doesn't
know to recode the filename, so it doesn't work.

-- 
Glenn Maynard
--
Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/