Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:34:40 +0200 From: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> To: =?utf-8?B?6KO05Zu95YW0?= <pagxir@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch: let msdosfs(vfat)/ntfs to support UTF-8 locale well Message-ID: <20090212183440.GA1446@tops> In-Reply-To: <98869b7c0902100112s6dae54bm4c14487076ceb75c@mail.gmail.com> References: <98869b7c0902100112s6dae54bm4c14487076ceb75c@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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