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Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 01:25:57 -2200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199607311829.LAA02458@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 31, 96 11:29:44 am
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Terry Lambert wrote:

[...] 

(Still digesting other comments. :)

> I can't help with the Unicode stuff given the current state of the BSD
> VFS; my suggestion is to punt, and treat the high byte as zero in all
> cases, converting it to ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1).  This will damage utility
> for anyone outside the Latin 1 scope, but that can't be helped without
> the underlying VFS changes (appologies to non-Latin 1 using countries
> up front).

Agreed.  For completeness, any thoughts on how to handle the
following?

Directory containing 3 single-character DOS filenames 0xc3..0xc5:

   SFN   LFN 
   c3    251c 
   c4    2500 
   c5    253c

AFAIK, DOS filenames containing characters >= 0x80 have never been
much used, or had much practical value.  So extensive special
provision for them almost seems misplaced.

--
Robert Nordier