On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > 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.
A small problem: Filenames cannot contain nul and slash characters, so no UTF-16 possible. > 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) Don't know about winamp. Just guess it does. It passes it all to windows afterall. > 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 behdad ================================================================= 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]
