Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:19:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.com> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: Alexander Voropay <a.voropay@globalone.ru>, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i18n in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005261007400.97660-100000@home.astralblue.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005221919450.58274-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Boris Popov wrote: | In addition, I've wrote kernel side iconv-like interface which | uses libiconv library to construct recode tables. Currently, each | filesystem (msdosfs, nwfs, smbfs) uses its own recode tables even if they | are the same. First of all thank you for doing this. It will save so many non-English speakers' lives in the world :-). That said, I think this probably needs to be dealt with prudently, because anything related to kernel namespace manipulation tends to lead to a confusion. That holds true esp. in such a grey area like charset issues. There are tons of issues that must be addressed, like case folding in filenames, how to deal with locale issues (e.g. different users on the system may use different locales; are we implementing a locale-sensitive namespace, and if yes, how?), and most important, how existing implementations have done the job (e.g. msdosfs, smbfs, cdfs/Joliet and so on). It might be a good idea to start with evaluating the options that has been proposed in the past. If my memory serves me right, Terry Lambert has once come up with a very similar problems (and his own solutions which unfortunately never made it to a permanent seat in the CVS repository). Regards, Eugene | | -- | Boris Popov | http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message | -- Eugene M. Kim <ab@astralblue.com> "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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