Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 13:43:03 EST


Le lundi 09 janvier 2006 à 12:38 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa a écrit :
> "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > FAT: this is not the recommended filesystem for use with UTF-8 filenames.
> >
> > Reason: the utf8 IO charset is the only IO charset that displays
> > filenames properly in UTF-8 locales. So the choice is really between
> > case-sensitive filenames (iocharset=utf8) and completely unreadable
> > filenames (everything else).
>
> And UTF-8 locale seems to be the only really sane today. I'd kill the
> whole warning.

.. on unix. But FAT is a sort of lingua franca of filesystems, and is
the only one understandable by every (embedded) OS. So you'd better stay
compatible with everyone else.

Xav


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