Subject: Re: Mount option to ignore case
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/30/2002 15:51:37
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:21:24 +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> [Note that some people are using 8859-2 fonts and 8859-2 keyboard
> maps - but this doesn't change filesystem behaviour, so you might
> get funny effects.]

Oh, you do ;).  E.g. (for cp866 russian) in one badly localized Norton
Commander clone you'd try to create a directory named "asshole" and it
would change one letter and create a directory named "buttocks".

The moral of the story is of course that we need proper locale
handling ;)

SY, Uwe
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