Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:03:46 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.) |
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Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > But that's not a reason not to fix the core problem - I don't want to > spent hours fixing filenames next time someone comes up with a new > encoding. Please put valid encoding info somewhere or declare filenames > are utf-8 od utf-16 only - changing user locale should not corrupt old > data.
If you attach encoding to names for a whole filesystem, you will get really unpleasant bugs including security holes because some names won't be writable, so the fs will either return error codes when those names are used, or silently alter the names.
-- Jamie
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