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    SubjectRe: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.
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    On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
    > There are far more programmes than only iconv. First of all readline
    > library is kind of broken because it counts (or at least it did a year
    > ago) bytes instead of characters. I won't use UTF-8 nor force anybody
    > else to do so until readline will handle it properly.

    Well utf8 would sure be nice if everything used it, and getting nice
    fonts for it was simple.

    > And it is good in a way, however, i think kernel level translation
    > should be also possible. Either done by a code in each filsystem or by
    > some layer above it.

    What do you do if the underlying filesystem can not store some unicode
    characters that are allowed on others?

    > It depend's on what it is used for. It is very good fs for removable
    > media. None of linux native filesystems is good for this because of
    > different uids on different machines. Since VFAT uses unicode it is
    > possible to see the filenames properly on systems using different
    > codepages for the same language (1:1 is possible).

    VFAT uses unicode? I thought it used the same codepage silyness as FAT
    did, since after all ti was just supposed to be a long filename
    extension to FAT. Do they use unicode in the long filenames only?

    I think UDF is a better filesystem for many types of media since it is
    able to me more gently to the sectors storing the meta data than VFAT
    ever will be.

    Len Sorensen
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