Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:45:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:45:12 -0500 Received: from mx7.mail.ru ([194.67.57.17]:48393 "EHLO mx7.mail.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:45:10 -0500 From: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC] FS charset conversions Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: 194.226.0.89 via proxy [194.226.0.63] Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:51:43 +0300 Reply-To: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1100 Lines: 25 The problem root lies in the fact in some languages (notably russian) there is more then one widely used charset. In russian for example there are koi8-r, iso8859-5, cp866 and the infamous but widely used ms cp1251. Once you need to have access to some data with names using the second half of the ascii table the trouble arises. For example the situation i have here is that smbd provides the public share and people creates there some files originating with the cp1251 encoding. Myself having koi8-r as the system default charset naturally observe crap. The proposed and seemingly natural solution is to add a possibility to mount --bind the subtree with a filename charset conversion applied. regards, Samium Gromoff ______________________________________ __________________________________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/