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SubjectRe: unicode (char as abstract data type)
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Followup to:  <19980420192339.59298@hazel>
By author: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Nope. We present foreign systems in UTF8 too and do conversions as
> > needed. It may be a given code set on disk, it may be UC2 on disk, it
> > may be ascii on disk but its UTF8 at the kernel API's for filenames.
>
> We convert latin1 to utf8?
>

We don't now, but if we went to an all-UTF-8 system, then yes, we
should convert Latin-1 to UTF-8 as well for filesystems which are
Latin-1 natively. Note that Unix filesystems don't define a charset
(they just define that any byte except null or / is valid in a
filename), so that's not an issue there.

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