To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:38:07 +0100
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"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com> writes:

> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
>>  	if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) {
>>  		printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset"
>>  		       " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!\n");
>
> This warning better reads in such a way:
>
> FAT: this is not the recommended filesystem for use with UTF-8 filenames.
>
> Reason: the utf8 IO charset is the only IO charset that displays
> filenames properly in UTF-8 locales. So the choice is really between
> case-sensitive filenames (iocharset=utf8) and completely unreadable
> filenames (everything else).

And UTF-8 locale seems to be the only really sane today. I'd kill the
whole warning.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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