Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:11:44 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: takawata@jp.freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs file name NLS encoding? Message-ID: <19961.1126674704@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:43:33 %2B0900." <200509140243.j8E2hXPY049090@ns.init-main.com>
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In message <200509140243.j8E2hXPY049090@ns.init-main.com>, takawata@jp.freebsd. org writes: >Hi, as you know, we can create arbitaly file name on devfs. >But for now, all file names on a devfs are encoded in ASCII. > >If we want to put Japanese file names in devfs, how should it >be encoded? UTF-8 or something convinient for the source encoding? All filenames in DEVFS are either created from the device driver 'C' source (as a string literal via sprintf mostly) or from userland as symlink. So whatever works. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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