Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: JFS default behavior | From | Nicolas Mailhot <> | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:03:03 +0100 |
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| Linus Torvalds pointed the way of Tux :
| In short: the kernel talks bytestreams, and that implies that if you | want to talk to the kernel, you HAVE TO USE UTF-8.
In that case : - should the kernel allow apps to write filenames that are invalid UTF-8 and will crash UTF-8 apps ? - should this UTF-8 rule be noted somewhere (in a FAQ/man page/LSB spec/ whatever) so apps authors know they are supposed to read and write UTF-8 filenames and not apply locale rules to kernel objects ? - what happens to already existing invalid UTF-8 filenames ? Should the kernel forcibly rewrite them (in 2.7.0...) to remove legacy mess ? What should happen if someone plug an unconverted FS in such a system afterwards ?
These are the questions people have been asking.
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