Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> H. Peter Anvin writes:
> > Actually, the conditions for non-ASCII filenames is even stricter: for
> > the system to work consistently the way you describe, the ENTIRE
> > SYSTEM needs to use the same locale.
>
> It needs not. If the administrator/distribution files are in ASCII,
> and users don't need to access each other's files, there is no
> problem with user A having /home/A in EUC-JP encoding and user B
> having /home/B in UTF-8 encoding.
>
That is a HUGE restriction, and is far from always an option.
Besides, it does not solve problems with e.g. Samba.
-hpa
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