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SubjectRe: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.
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On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 18:20, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Yes, that's how it works, but if I want ext or reiser or whatever to
> have NLS, I'll have to make them support it (btw, if I do so, wont it
> be rejected?). I want to move the NLS one level upper so the
> filesystem imlementations won't have to worry about it any more. I
> don't have much kernel experience, and none in the fs area, so I can't
> explain it any better, but hope you get the idea.

An ext3fs is always utf-8. People might have chosen to put other
encodings on it but thats "not our fault" ;)

There are some good technical reasons too

Encodings don't map 1:1 - two names may cease to be unique

Encodings vary in length - image a file name that is longer than the
allowed maximum on your system with your encoding choice - that could
occur with KOI8-R to UTF-8 I believe

That said it ought to be possible to use the stackable fs work (FUSE
etc) to write a layer you can mount over any fs that does NLS
translation.

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