Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 06:38:51 EST


"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@xxxxxxxxx> 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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