"Michael C . Wu" wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:57:19PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev scribbled: > | Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > | > | > At Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:38:58 +0200, > | > Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > > > But your solution is no effective and much harmful to multibyte users. > | > > You are not quite right. For multibyte users my solution (workaround?) is at >least equial to the previous no-unicode case . I do > | > > not see how it can be harmful. > | > > | > 1. In just your workaround, multibyte users will take no merits. > | > > | > 2. Based on your direction, the size of loadable conversion table > | > will immensely expand for multibyte support, or be abandoned. > | > Fundamental misdesign will lead to such unfortunate situation. > | > So I said your solution was harmful. > | > | Proposed by me patches is no way an official direction of the Project and as I >advertised are merely a workaround to allow non-English > | users to read CD with native filenames until comprehensive iconv for kernel will >be introduced. I would be glad if someone will > | replace my hack with more generic solution. > > I think that making this "hack" a russian/xxxfs port and I think > everyone can be happy. If you want unicode FS like this, perhaps you > can have a sysutils/unicodefs. :) No, it's no way a ports- commit. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message