Re: [PATCH] Russian encoding support for MacHFS

[Alex Riesen]

(could you please use shorter lines? Around 80 is good. It's difficult to read).

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:57:56 +0300, Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... This means that you must to be able to reverse-translate all names from
> Linux encoding to Mac encoding. Using NLS causes characters loss if
> requested character does not exist in the table (it is substituted by '?').
> Macintosh disks often contains specific characters in file names
> ("Folder" character for example) which will be lost in this case.

how about just leave the characters unchanged? (remap them to the same
codes in Unicode).

> Probably using utf8 as host encoding would solve the problem but it's not
> commonly used in Russia.

Unicode, and its encoding UTF8 IS commonly used everywhere.
And Russia can (and often does) use it just as well.

P.S. Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
What kernel is the patch against?
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