Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

I know that for DOS/windows file systems you can set a charset 
for the global system. Maybe yo should also be able to
do that for the native linux systems on a filesystem wide
basis. 

I understand that there is no charset or locale attribute
per se in linux/uinx/posix filesystems and APIs. 
An the kerne does not know which charset the directory
entries are in. Or does the kernel know that for 
the dos/win fs? If so you could also have kernel
knowledge of native fs charset. And wrapper APIs from
userland could convert to the fs charset from a locale/
charset of the running program before calling the actual 
kernel API. 

I think we may be heading for a mess if we dont do something 
like that. utf8 as the system encoding is imminent 
on Linux, and all the native filesystems are in
other encodings, such as iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15
in my case.

Kind regards
keld
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