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 <martin-fuchs(a)gmx.net> [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.
>