Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 11:38, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Instead of adding NLS support to filesystems who don't have it yet, I
> think there should be a global NLS layer, to convert file names from
> any to any encoding, independent of file system and transparently to
> the user.

Thats essentially what we have. The core OS is UTF-8, the fat and one or
two other legacy file systems support mapping old and/or inferior
encodings into utf-8 (and some other stuff).

Alan

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