Re: Using nls to xlate Unicode->charset
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Apr 1998 20:49:19 GMT
Followup to: <199804262003.WAA01259@localhost>
By author: Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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>
> Does anybody know if there's any short doc or faq on how to
> use the nls support in late 2.1.x kernels to xlate UNICODE strings to
> ISO strings?
>
> I need it for the USB strings, as they're coded in
> UNICODE. I've tried to understand the inner workings of nls by lurking
> into fat, ntfs and isods and saw I needed some time more to guess it
> than it'd take to ask if there's a doc, so I thought perhaps somebody
> could enlightent me and thus optimize time :)
>
> As a fallback method ... I'll dig again into the code :)
>
Why not just present UTF-8 strings to user space?
-hpa
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