Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 04:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/5038: FreeBSD can't read MS Joliet CDs. Message-ID: <199904181140.EAA58587@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/5038; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp> Cc: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, byung@wam.umd.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de Subject: Re: kern/5038: FreeBSD can't read MS Joliet CDs. Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:24:15 +0900 Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > > The 'mandatory + recommended' object size is no more than 5 kbytes. > The GENERIC kernel does not require necessarily > the euc-jp support or any other charsets. > I think the iso8859-1 support alone is sufficient for GENERIC. > > The custom kernels can have the euc-jp support through > the CHARSET_EUC_JP and ENCODING_EUC kernel configure option. > (They are currently defined at the top of the source files.) But are they set by default to include euc-jp? Well, that's a minor point. > Yes. sysctl is not the best idea. > > I think the charset preferences should apply on per-process basis ideally. > > The operator mounts some disks. > The users access the disks in their own preferred charset. > > The UNICODE is a multiligual codeset, > so we shoud not suppose any specific charset on the disk. > Therefore, a per-mount basis is not enough. > > If the routines can refer the users' environment 'LC_CTYPE', > it is fine idea. But it can't, I suppose. Yeah, Terry Lambert has preached on this before. My point is that I can't get the patch committed with it using a sysctl node. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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