Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 11:08 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > >>>>> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Does encoding of file depend on locale? Isn't it stored on the > >> filesystem? > > Georg> I am not sure. Under linux the encoding is a mount parameter of > Georg> some filesystems (e.g. fat or ntfs). I believe that other file > Georg> systems like etx3 or reiserfs do not know anything about > Georg> encodings, and that the applications interpret the raw data > Georg> according to the locale. Further research is needed here, also > Georg> on OS X and windows. In the worst case we need a preferences > Georg> option that specifies how filenames are encoded. > > Isn't the OS supposed to do that for us? I can't believe that all apps > are supposed to handle this...
Me neither, but it looks like that. I searched a bit more, and it looks like linux file systems really don't know anything about encodings. There is also a tool to convert filenames after locale changes: http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/#description Qt does it also like this: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qfile.html#encodeName Georg
