Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:24:26 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> Cc: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, =?utf-8?b?w6jCo8K0w6XCm8K9w6XChcK0?= <pagxir@gmail.com> Subject: Re: patch: let msdosfs(vfat)/ntfs to support UTF-8 locale well Message-ID: <20090213142426.15765x5ggsjk5wkk@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20090213001350.52470f39.ota@j.email.ne.jp> References: <98869b7c0902100112s6dae54bm4c14487076ceb75c@mail.gmail.com> <20090212183440.GA1446@tops> <20090213001350.52470f39.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
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Quoting Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> (from Fri, 13 Feb 2009 =20 00:13:50 -0500): > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:34:40 +0200 > Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On (10/02/2009 17:12), =E8=A3=B4=E5=9B=BD=E5=85=B4 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): >> > =20 >> http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/msdosfs.patch?gda=3DMzIscT8AAABs_gmy4a= 1S9lRiXjEy-V5OpwtI67JnIGlz0zr18tjObOtoi5oIt3BJMRGeqGBbbj-ccyFKn-rNKC-d1pM_Id= V0 >> > the full tar.bz2 package: >> > =20 >> http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/msdosfs.tar.bz2?gda=3DIG1pBkEAAABs_gmy= 4a1S9lRiXjEy-V5OpwtI67JnIGlz0zr18tjObNLRc95Ps2S1UISaL0WhuitTCT_pCLcFTwcI3Sro= 5jAzlXFeCn-cdYleF-vtiGpWAA >> > >> > I also will patch for ntfs driver >> > =20 >> http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/ntfs.patch?gda=3DOqsHoDwAAABs_gmy4a1S9= lRiXjEy-V5O7RN7t-m4MjZ-5dQn_EvaqDVCWO9_HyYEQJyRQYPtRCL9Wm-ajmzVoAFUlE7c_fAt >> > =20 >> http://btload.googlegroups.com/web/ntfs.tar.bz2?gda=3DzErXED4AAABs_gmy4a1= S9lRiXjEy-V5O7RN7t-m4MjZ-5dQn_EvaqG3K0t6fVz8SMYStF_2dqCPjsKXVs-X7bdXZc5buSfm= x >> > >> > The Chinese characters in the fat32 partition can be displayed =20 >> 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; =20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ > This work was never merged into the tree excpet few bug fixes to =20 > 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 numbe= r > of people) FreeBSD committers to this. Otherwise, people keep reinvening > and posting patches to this topic. Maybe someone could have a look if/what Apple did. Maybe they improved =20 the kiconv part which makes the use of it for what you are interested =20 in possible. Bye, Alexander. --=20 To do two things at once is to do neither. =09=09-- Publilius Syrus http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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