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SubjectRe: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)
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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