Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <> | Subject | Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:33:16 -0400 |
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"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?
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