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Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

Followup to:  <20020919075743.GA3654@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> 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.
> 

Remounting only applies to non-POSIX filesystems.  POSIX filesystems
store filenames as strings of bytes.

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