Hi Linus,
patch below allows user to select 'default' encoding,
which has defined mapping for each of 255 byte values, so
one can use it as a fallback when it finds filesystem
with unknown encoding (EBCDIC for example) just to get
characters through filesystem.
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
diff -urdN linux/fs/nls/nls_base.c linux/fs/nls/nls_base.c
--- linux/fs/nls/nls_base.c Mon May 6 03:37:54 2002
+++ linux/fs/nls/nls_base.c Tue May 7 10:06:53 2002
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
#endif
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
-static struct nls_table *tables;
+static struct nls_table default_table;
+static struct nls_table *tables = &default_table;
static spinlock_t nls_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
/*
-
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