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tlug: Re: What decides Japanese file name encoding?



Thanks for the reply.

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:02:40 +0900 (JST) Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> ... (see my earlier post re Unicode implementation)

I searched the tlug mailing list archive and found some posts from 9705
or 9801.  Anything more recent?

>     Jim> How does this locale stuff really work?
> 
> Really work?  Really badly, at least for Japanese.  That's required 
> by JIS standard I believe.

I wondered if (had hoped?) the Japanese kernel uses internally some
standard encoding for filenames, etc., and that there would be some
document/spec describing how it is (to be) implemented.

Best regards,
jim.
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