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On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:39 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> For msdosfs, you still need the mount option to tell the kernel how to
> convert the on-disk format to  utf8. IMHO it does not make much sense 
> to let
> the kernel convert to users current locale imediately - so passing out 
> the
> data from kernel to userland in utf8 is a good idea.
>
> And the easiest thing to do for ffs is to interpret the stored data as 
> utf8
> always, which fits very well with Valerieys suggestion.

I agree completely that UTF-8 is the ideal conversion target for 
kernel<->userland interaction.  I *think* this is what Mac OS X does, 
as well.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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