Re: Ideas for v2.1

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
11 Jun 1996 18:01:19 GMT


In article <199606110941.LAA10555@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>UNICODE-able Filesystem layer? (As the win32 api is at least prepared for.)
>
>(Is such a thing standardized by POSIX or some other standard comitee?)
>

We already have that! Better yet, we don't need bulky conversions in
the kernel. It has already been agreed that Linux will use UTF-8 for
Unicode exchange, and ext2fs handles UTF-8 just peachy-dandy, thank
you.

-hpa