Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
I would think life would be ultimately easier if either the file server
or the shell server automatically translated file names from jis and
utf8 and back, so that the PATH on the *nix shell server is entirely
utf8.
This is not possible because no part of the computer knows what the
encoding is. To the computer, it's just a sequence of bytes. Unlike
xml or the windows filesystem (winfs? ntfs?) where the encoding is
specified as part of the document/filesystem there's nothing to tell
what encoding the filenames are in.
I thought you said that the file server keep all filenames in shift-jis,
and the shell server all in utf-8. If so, then the shell server could
know if it were told so.
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