Re: [RFC] FS charset conversions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
05 Nov 2002 11:53:37 +0000

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:51, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> The proposed and seemingly natural solution is to add a possibility
> to mount --bind the subtree with a filename charset conversion applied.

The traditional unix approach is to declare the universe UTF-8. No
single character set is the right answer, UTF8 preserves "/" and \0
semantics so works very well indeed.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/