On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:05:57PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev scribbled: | Several days ago I got a CD with Russian filenames on it and discovered that | I'm unable to read those filenames. After some hacking I produced a patch, | which should solve this problem in the manner similar to what we have in | msdosfs module (i.e. user-provided conversion table). I have to emphasize that | it's a temporary solution until we will have iconv support in kernel. | | Please somebody review attached patches. Please do not assume Unicode. I18N/L10N efforts have been crying for programmers to *not* and *never* assume *anything*. :) Also, this belongs more on -i18n more than anything else. I really do not want to generate all the traffic on -i18n alone.. :) Have you seen ports/chinese/big5fs? Japanese/Korean do the same thing too You could simply make a port of this that loads KLD's. This enables us to have the support without having hacks in src/sys. I talked to Boris at length about this. And I think this would be the best way to implement "temporary" hacks. As to the progress of iconv, we should have it soon, as soon as itojun and I work out how to import either the Citrus code or Konstantin's code. If you make this a port, I say "go for it." :) If you wish to commit to src/sys, I have strong doubts about this. I hope you do not mind my bluntness about this, as I really want to express the feelings. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Michael -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
