Re: [tlug] RFC

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:21:06AM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> tho. So it would be really neat if one could configure the glibc to
> translate between an utf8 filesystem encoding and the locale encoding
> one is currently using. This gets us another Problem, characters that
> exist in utf8 but not in the locale one is using.

How would glibc know whether a filename was encoded in UTF8 or in 
EUC? I already have directories called
\M-H\M-\\M-m\M-o\M-r_\M-L\M-i\M-j\M-q\M-o\M-}\M-t\M-s\M-i\M-j\M-o\M-r
because ls doesn't know the difference between Unicode, ISO8859-7 Greek
and EUC. I don't see how to make it much better.

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