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FromJeremy Maitin-Shepard <>
SubjectRe: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.
DateThu, 16 Jun 2005 00:33:16 -0400
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> [snip]

> Ext2/3's encoding has always been utf-8.  Period.

In what way does Ext2/3 know or care about file name encoding?  Doesn't
it just store an arbitrary 8-byte string?  Couldn't someone claim that
from the start it was designed to use iso8859-1 just as easily as you
can claim it was designed to use utf-8?

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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