On 2016-01-19, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:39:26PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> OpenBSD file systems do not have any noting of characters in file names. >> The file systems treat file names as byte string. Interpretation is >> left to userland tools. >> >> Userland tools are being worked on to treat strings as UTF-8 if the >> locale(1) is set to UTF-8, and as US-ASCII otherwise. Right now, >> some are still inconsistent. >> >> The ports tree may or may not contain third-party tools that help. > > It would be great to have a fuse(4) module which uses iconv > to present re-encoded version of an already mounted filesystem. > > E.g. say there are latin1 filenames in /mnt. If users could > this filesystem at /mnt-utf8 with UTF-8 paths these kinds of > issues could be solved without changing the foreign encoding. > > Does anyone know if such a thing already exists?
I had a search and couldn't find it, but as a result am now listening to "Loop" by LFO vs F.U.S.E. and have had an "ah *that's* what that track is called" moment :-) (er, sorry for the offtopic post!)
