Hi Jean-Pierre,
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-Pierre Andr� wrote:
> >>
> >> The first one is ntfs-3g-warnings.patch and should be relatively safe.
>
> There are two more warnings in mft.c about having no prototype
> for two functions added lately : ntfs_mft_attr_extend() and
> ntfs_mft_rec_alloc(). Apparently you do not address them,
> in fact it is just a matter of declaring these functions as static.
Yes, these are also fixed in the current CVS.
> I also have a patch for ntfs-3g in an error formatting message
> ("ntfs_attr_pwrite partial write" etc.) for variables to be formatted
> as %lld though not cast to long long. This warning only shows on
> 64-bit compiles because in that situation the variables are plain
> longs (I have not the exact patch at hand as my own version is
> different).
It would be really nice to have an exteneded logging API one day, where
the format string could have NTFS specific conversion specifiers, so we
wouldn't need to bother these cast anymore, only once.
> Also there are a lot of warnings in fuse-lite, but I have never
> looked at them.
Yes, I'm planning to ask Miklos' opinion about them for while.
> > We would like to have built-in, default utf8 support, instead of using
> > "locale=". This work was ongoing by Bernhard Kaindl (original patch) and
> > recently by Jean-Pierre Andre. An improved patch is already included in
> > the advanced (ownership, permission, acl support) ntfs-3g branch.
> >
> > Jean-Pierre, do you have feedback how well the new UTF8 converter works in
> > general, and espcially with non-European languages?
> >
>
> No such feedback to date, and no known problem.
> I can just tell I can now display non-latin chars.
> The extension I made in Bernhard Kaindl implementation
> was taking into account surrogate pairs (for rare
> Unicode characters).
Sounds good, thanks :-) Perhaps it's time to do a wider testing with the
main branch, too ...
Regards,
Szaka
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