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

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:49:05PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 03:20 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > An ext3fs is always utf-8. People might have chosen to put other
> > encodings on it but thats "not our fault" ;)
> 
> What happens if you 'field upgrade' ext2 to ext3 by adding a journal? That 
> doesn't magically convert !utf-8 to utf-8.

Ext2/3's encoding has always been utf-8.  Period.

There have been some people who have chosen to do something else
locally, but that was about as valid as the people who violated SMTP
standards by Just Sending 8-bits instead of using MIME.

							- Ted
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