Bug#500540: Considerations.
Hi Raúl,
I'm sorry I didn't respond to your comment on this bug as I am not subscribed to it.
On Saturday 08 November 2008 19:01:23 Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
> Some time ago, no sooner than Etch was released, CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
> was 437(cp437) and CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET was iso8859-1 (latin1). But
> after http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417324 it was changed
> to current 437 and utf8, respectively.
>
> Things being like this, using utf8 as long file name encoding, results in
> case sensitive file names. I find this indeed a drawback, but using uft8 has
> the advantage of support for non-ascii chars. [Or at least supporting it
> correctly]
As far as I can tell your analysis is correct. But (and this is a big "but") you seem
to have ignored the utf8 flag. The effect of using a non-utf8 iocharset and the utf8
flag is that long filenames will be encoded in utf8 and the iocharset will only be used
for case comparison. IMHO this is the "real solution" that you are looking for, but
there is (or was?) a problem with making it the default. (See Message#48 for details).
Cheers,
-henrik
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