Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:08:42 +0000 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: |
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:56:30PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > Again users want characters, not bytes. Here up in the north we are among the > lucky ones that can still read a partially unlegible file name, because enough many > characters are usually just ascii. If a name was encoded in SJIS and you see them > interpreted as UTF-8 you'll a a string of pure garbage and you need to ask a bit > twiddler for help in decoding it simply becase ASCII characters are not likely to be > among the characters.
What I see is a string of pure garbage _here_. On l-k. Large part of that garbage obviously coming from kooks with agenda. Could we please take that shite to more appropriate place? Alt.sex.encodings.byte.byte.byte, whatever. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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