On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Chapman Flack wrote:

> I think it is going to get more common that we run into specs like  
> ACPI
> or SMB that provide for data in specific character encodings that  
> we will
> have to deal with in the kernel, and we should have a single good  
> story
> for how we do it.

...or HFS+, or file systems that expect file names to be in UTF-8  
NFC, etc.

-- thorpej