Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20001227 20:05], Andrej Cernov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Yes, it is a per-FS hack, but until iconv or something like will be > >integrated, some hack needed just to read CDs selling at nearby shop. > > As far as I know, Boris Popov was working on iconv() support. > I see he is cc:'d, so I happily await his ideas/statusupdate. > > Furthermore, even though I only use special characters for Dutch, > German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic, I feel that > _if_ we start to add Unicode support we do it right from the beginning. > Unicode was meant to solve the native character set problem for all > languages [as far as my knowledge stretches] and should not be a > working, but ugly, hack which only allows per-language solutions. > > If you want to have people to have the ability to mount their CD's with > Russian characters by all means provide the patch on your website. > > I am by all means not an l10n or i18n hacker nor wizard, otherwise I > would've dedicated my ample time working on this and solve it once and > for all with all other interested parties. > > In short: please do it right from the start. Please look at the code in question before starting to complain. My patch is not only for Russian users - it provides an ability to load *any* Unicode->single-byte-coding conversion table or even several those tables at once. Therefore if you want to mount CD with filenames in Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic [insert your own single-byte language here] then create appropriate table and load it on mount. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
