Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 1998 11:11:32 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) unicode (from linux-kernel) |
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Marc Lehmann writes: > > > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 07:01:23PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > >> We could have a (rather simple) scheme, in which we use one byte in each > > > > > > a byte? a _single_ byte? > > > > It's not bad if the byte is an index into a table of languages. > > Then you could put your choice of up to 256 encodings on a filesystem, > > There are many more than 256 languages on earth! (klingon etc. NOT counted).
But how many alphabets are there? I can think of: - latin (total 3 variants needed) - cyrillic - japanese - chinese (needing maybe 10 or 20 maps) - thai - greek - arabic - hebrew - glyphs (2 maps) - klingon - elven (tolkien + others)
This means some 32 maps. And since I probably forgot some 75%, we could have 128 maps filled by now. OK, I agree this might be somewhat small...
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