Re: tlug: Japanese support in MSDOS and VFAT file systems

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "ash" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> Well, do they?  Anybody know?  I get weird and
    Stephen> intermittent behavior even on simple directory listings

    ash> Years ( 10-11? ) ago, I remember having problems on a 3Com
    ash> file server with SJIS. MS Dos wants to fold all the lower
    ash> case to upper, which does not work so well with SJIS :) Maybe
    ash> that is what is happening here?

I don't think that's all of it; some of the gomi contains lowercase
ASCII, even with the MSDOS mount.

Maybe that's part of it; one thing that happens is that globbed
directory listings will often come back with errors about file not
found.  But I think that's with vfat mounts....

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