Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 01:25:57 -2200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? Message-ID: <199607312325.BAA00549@eac.iafrica.com> 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
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