Re: [ros-general] why folks (Fw: Kernel Support For Case-Insensitive Filenames)

[Martin Fuchs]

> On 17.02.2004 13:46:43 Robert Shearman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is an interesting thread on the linux-kernel mailing list about
> the trying to add support for efficient case-insensitive lookups. Here's
> a link to the thread if anyone wants to read about it or possibly chip
> in :)
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.2/0273.html

They are now debatting about how to efficiently implement case insenitive filenames and how to handle problems with different character encodings in file/path names on the Linux kernel mailing list.
Linus is at the position to implement this by introducing some work around-like new system calls. I think it isn't possible to do this correctly without handling any file names in the kernel using Unicode. (be it UTF-8, UTF-16 or the four byte encoding used in unix environments commonly)

NTFS has Unicode support since ages!
I think this shows one main point, why NT has been called "New Technology".

So I am waiting for a main feature announcement for Linux version [23].[0-9].[0-9.]+ like "full Unicode support in kernel".  :-)

Regards,

Martin

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Martin Fuchs [e-mail] [2004-02-18 08:42:16 +0100]:

<snip>
> NTFS has Unicode support since ages!

Well, I never ever had any thought of the need for unicode filenames.

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[Martin Fuchs]

> <snip>
> > NTFS has Unicode support since ages!
> Well, I never ever had any thought of the need for unicode filenames.

You not (and me also not) - but there are also japan and china people,
who demant this - just as example.
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[Jasper van de Gronde]

You don't have to go that far, what about all the European languages 
that have accents. Accents are a mess without unicode.

Martin Fuchs wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > NTFS has Unicode support since ages!
> >
> > Well, I never ever had any thought of the need for unicode filenames.
>
> You not (and me also not) - but there are also japan and china people,
> who demant this - just as example.