Re: Bug#445105: ITP: fuse-convmvfs -- mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to another

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:48:11AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 03 Oktober 2007 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > * Package name    : fuse-convmvfs
> >   Version         : 0.2.4
> >   Upstream Author : Z.C. Miao <hellwolf.misty@gmail.com>
> > * URL             : http://fuse-convmvfs.sourceforge.net/
> > * License         : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: C++
> >   Description     : mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to
> > another
> >
> >   convmvfs is a FUSE (File System in Userspace) utility that transparently
> >   mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to another. Only the
> > names of files and directories are converted, the file content remains
> > intact. The mirrored tree is mounted at the given mountpoint.
> 
> Can you give an example why this is better than using NLS?

AFAIK, NLS doesn't work on a lot of filesystems...

Mike