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Subject: Re: patch: let msdosfs(vfat)/ntfs to support UTF-8 locale well
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On (11/11/2010 13:20), Buganini wrote:
>> I'm using these two patches on CURRENT
>> http://security-hole.info/~buganini/patches/kiconv_msdosfs/
>
> Patch looks worth committing, I've once started working on very similar
> solution but never had time to finish it.
>
> What do think about importing lower-upper case characters unicode ranges
> and extending kiconv to remove locale option (-L) from msdosfs?

While we're on the topic of looking at filesystem's Unicode support,
would anyone with the appropriate knowledge have a chance to look at
these patches?

http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/

It would make smbfs against modern systems so much more usable...

--Antony