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Subject: Re: [RFC] FS charset conversions
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:51, Samium Gromoff wrote:
>         The proposed and seemingly natural solution is to add a possibility
>     to mount --bind the subtree with a filename charset conversion applied.

The traditional unix approach is to declare the universe UTF-8. No
single character set is the right answer, UTF8 preserves "/" and \0
semantics so works very well indeed.

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