first, ntfs is a unicode filesystem, file names are saved in unicode. in linux, the high level layers are supposed to decide whether saving in 8 bit, 16 bits,utf8 or even utf16. The kernel does not care about it. It's GLIBC's work to do that.
If you have GLIBC > 2.2, you should start mounting partitions as UTF8, it's backward compatible (no data is destroyed) and saved data will work everywhere. for example my disk-on-key is VFAT I use it on linux, and it works also on winXP, this is my line from fstab: none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=utf8 0 0 about the original problem: do you mean saving the id tags in mp3 as utf8 ? will winamp know how to handle this? (ogg saves data in unicode, so we are safe in this area) btw: I tried bmp, and it's dam unstable. resize the list window and it dies. last time i tired it could not handle mp3... i have a spec which makes an rpm from the cvs if anyone wants. http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/diego/beep-hebrew.png ××××, 3 ×××××× 2004, 16:51, ×××× ×× ××× Oren Held: > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 16:31, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that people use UTF-8 > > > filenames yet. A small test I've made shows that even KDE saves hebrew > > > filenames in a non-unicode form. > > > > That's the default in GNOME 2 and Fedora, and has been decided to > > be the future of the Linux. Don't forget, UTF-8 would replace > > ASCII! > > People don't write code so it'll work only in the future. > People write code in order to give solutions for your current needs. > > Look at the wanted section in the newspaper. Many mainframe programmers > are wanted. By your attitude, nobody would need Mainframe programmers in > the 21th Century. > > Currently Debian's default is non-unicode and most people don't use > unicode filenames. Yes, it might be (or might not be) different in 2006, > but even then a minority would still use non-unicode filenames, and > adding a feature to support them is not such a bad idea. > > - Oren > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diego, Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
