RE: [PATCH v9 10/13] exfat: add nls operations
From: Namjae Jeon
Date: Thu Jan 09 2020 - 17:37:47 EST
> On Thursday 02 January 2020 16:20:33 Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > This adds the implementation of nls operations for exfat.
>
> Hello! In whole patch series are different naming convention for
> nls/Unicode related terms. E.g. uni16s, utf16s, nls, vfsname, ...
>
> Could this be fixed, so it would be unambiguously named? "uni16s" name is
> misleading as Unicode does not fit into 16byte type.
>
> Based on what is in nls.h I would propose following names:
>
> * unicode_t *utf32s always for strings in UTF-32/UCS-4 encoding (host
> endianity) (or "unicode_t *unis" as this is the fixed-width encoding
> for all Unicode codepoints)
>
> * wchar_t *utf16s always for strings in UTF-16 encoding (host endianity)
>
> * u8 *utf8s always for strings in UTF-8 encoding
>
> * wchar_t *ucs2s always for strings in UCS-2 encoding (host endianity)
>
> Plus in the case you need to work with UTF-16 or UCS-2 in little endian,
> add appropriate naming suffixes.
>
> And use e.g. "vfsname" (char * OR unsigned char * OR u8 *) like you
> already have on some places for strings in iocharset= encoding.
Will rename them on v10.
Thanks!