Re: msdos filesystem ignores codepage argument?

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Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> Umm... so you are saying the argument does nothing on purpose?
>>> What is the use of specifying the on disk code page if not so
>>> that it can be translated to utf8?
>> 
>> As I said, the codepage option is used for upper/lower conversion.
>
> But userspace tools like ls and the terminal expect all filenames to
> be in utf8, not in some random codepage that varies from fs to fs, so
> how is it not a bug that the names aren't translated?

Kernel doesn't know about $LANG at all. utf8 is just in a userland
thing, and normal UNIX FSes doesn't care about encoding *at all*, just
save as-is. It is why you feel FSes working by utf8.

Well, anyway, if you want to add encoding conversion to msdos, we need
the patch.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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