"Anton B. Rang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you happen to know where programs in (Open)Solaris look when they > > want to know how to encode text to be used in a filename? Is it > > LC_CTYPE? > > In general, they don't. Command-line utilities just use the sequence > of bytes entered by the user.
Obviously that depends on the application. A command-line utility that interprets an normal xml file containing filenames know the characters but not the bytes. The same goes for command-line utilities that receive the filenames as text (e.g., some file transfer utility or daemon). > GUI-based software does as well, but the encoding used for user input > can sometimes be selected.... Hmm.. I'm usually programming at quite high a level, so I'm not very familiar with how stuff works under the hood... If I run xev on my linux box (I don't have X on any (Open)Solaris) and press the Ä-key on my keyboard it says "keycode 48" and "keysym 0xe4", and then "XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a4) "ä"". Thus at least XLookupString seems to know that I'm using UTF-8. Where did it (or whoever converted 0xe4 to 0xc3a4) get the needed info? - Marcus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
