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SubjectRe: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior)


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > I can point at the example of this "solution" that happened years ago
> > when UCS-2 was all the rage, and it got hardcoded and enforced by NTFS
> > and everything that handles it. Who is laughing about that decision now?
>
> We are all laughing ;)

Crying. Sadly, when MS makes a whopper of a mistake (and they do it all
too often), we're left having to work with the resulting breakage.

I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane (*).

Linus

(*) Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell.
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