From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 18 4:41:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8E2151CD; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 04:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA21294; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:39:20 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3719C0DF.6A8E2A29@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:24:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Motomichi Matsuzaki 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. References: <199904171549.LAA23743@lor.watermarkgroup.com> <3718E187.54571571@newsguy.com> <19990418135558W.mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-current" in the body of the message