On Fre, 2009-12-18 at 11:45 +0530, Indraneel Mukherjee wrote: > What's the char encoding type used to store file names on EXT4 > filesystem - UTF8, UTF16 or UTF32? All or none - depending on how you interpret it: The kernel uses the byte sequence you pass as the filename. If it's in UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, Latin1, ISO-8859-15, (clean 7bit) ASCII, some self-made encoding or EBCDIC is in the kernel irrelevant (as long as the '\0' and '/' char isn't used except for the usual - terminating the name and separating path components, respectively). And the should be the case for all filesystems. And yes, that gives fun if you `tar` a directory with non-ASCII chars (like German umlauts) on an old ISO-8859-1 system and un-`tar` it on a current UTF-8 one. Bernd -- mobil: +43 664 4416156 http://bernd.petrovitsch.priv.at/ Linux Software Entwicklung, Beratung und Dienstleistungen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
