Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:13:50 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?6KO05Zu95YW0?= <pagxir@gmail.com> Subject: Re: patch: let msdosfs(vfat)/ntfs to support UTF-8 locale well Message-ID: <20090213001350.52470f39.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20090212183440.GA1446@tops> References: <98869b7c0902100112s6dae54bm4c14487076ceb75c@mail.gmail.com> <20090212183440.GA1446@tops>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:34:40 +0200 Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> wrote: > On (10/02/2009 17:12), 裴国兴 wrote: > > I write a patch to support UTF-8 locale well. I think it maybe help > > for some FreeBSD user. > > follow link is the patch (base on FreeBSD 7.1): > > http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/msdosfs.patch?gda=MzIscT8AAABs_gmy4a1S9lRiXjEy-V5OpwtI67JnIGlz0zr18tjObOtoi5oIt3BJMRGeqGBbbj-ccyFKn-rNKC-d1pM_IdV0 > > the full tar.bz2 package: > > http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/msdosfs.tar.bz2?gda=IG1pBkEAAABs_gmy4a1S9lRiXjEy-V5OpwtI67JnIGlz0zr18tjObNLRc95Ps2S1UISaL0WhuitTCT_pCLcFTwcI3Sro5jAzlXFeCn-cdYleF-vtiGpWAA > > > > I also will patch for ntfs driver > > http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/ntfs.patch?gda=OqsHoDwAAABs_gmy4a1S9lRiXjEy-V5O7RN7t-m4MjZ-5dQn_EvaqDVCWO9_HyYEQJyRQYPtRCL9Wm-ajmzVoAFUlE7c_fAt > > http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/ntfs.tar.bz2?gda=zErXED4AAABs_gmy4a1S9lRiXjEy-V5O7RN7t-m4MjZ-5dQn_EvaqG3K0t6fVz8SMYStF_2dqCPjsKXVs-X7bdXZc5buSfmx > > > > The Chinese characters in the fat32 partition can be displayed correctly now. > > > > when mount windows partitions, you should do like this: > > mount_ntfs -C UTF-8 /dev/ad?s? /path/to/mount > > mount_msdosfs -L zh_CN.UTF-8 /dev/ad?s? /path/to/mount > > I've also looked at it recently but my idea was to update kiconv to > handle ucs-2 (or whatever it is) -> utf-8 conversion in kernel. kiconv > supports different translation methods. Current implementation just > creates a table for ucs2->utf-8 conversion and passes it too kernel. It > seems it can't even handle all of unicode chars. > Fixing kiconv would be a better solution, imho. Some people attempted to improve kinconv and locale on filesystems. I only remember this one at this moment; http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ This work was never merged into the tree excpet few bug fixes to other reasons. This was back in 5.x relases. So, it doesn't apply cleanly these days. I also seens some people posted similar patches to the list in past years. However, none of them got any attentions to the project. I think we somehow have to get enough attensions of some (reasonable number of people) FreeBSD committers to this. Otherwise, people keep reinvening and posting patches to this topic. Regards, Hirohome | help
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