Aimed at the thread, not the participants. This is off-topic for audit-. Please bring it back to audit- when you have some actual code to audit. Thanks! M > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:05:57PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev scribbled: > | Several days ago I got a CD with Russian filenames on it and discovered tha t > | I'm unable to read those filenames. After some hacking I produced a patch, > | which should solve this problem in the manner similar to what we have in > | msdosfs module (i.e. user-provided conversion table). I have to emphasize t hat > | it's a temporary solution until we will have iconv support in kernel. > | > | Please somebody review attached patches. > > Please do not assume Unicode. I18N/L10N efforts have been crying for > programmers to *not* and *never* assume *anything*. :) > > Also, this belongs more on -i18n more than anything else. I really > do not want to generate all the traffic on -i18n alone.. :) > > Have you seen ports/chinese/big5fs? Japanese/Korean do the same thing too > You could simply make a port of this that loads KLD's. This enables us > to have the support without having hacks in src/sys. I talked > to Boris at length about this. And I think this would be the best way > to implement "temporary" hacks. > > As to the progress of iconv, we should have it soon, as soon as > itojun and I work out how to import either the Citrus code > or Konstantin's code. > > If you make this a port, I say "go for it." :) If you wish to commit > to src/sys, I have strong doubts about this. I hope you do not > mind my bluntness about this, as I really want to express the feelings. > > Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, > Michael > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message > -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
