From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
jasonr@f2s.com
Subject: Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:05:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47343EFF.2090602@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3avfrb0k.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:01:31 -0500
>>
>> It's actually a bit worse: it shouldn't just be encodable with utf-8,
>> but it should also be the case that encoding to utf-8 and back should
>> return the exact same string (since these are filenames and will be
>> compared with simple byte-comparison in the kernel).
>
> What kernel are we talking about here? The Windows filesystem, for
> example, does not compare bytes, but rather 16-bit words (UTF-16).
> And Linux filesystems use UTF-8 for file names anyway, right?
Linux filesystems (and others) don't interpret the file names. They are just
sequences of bytes. It is the user space tools like ls, emacs and others that
put meaning to these bytes.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 15:05 Encoding for a file containing filenames? Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-08 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-08 16:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-08 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-08 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-08 23:42 ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-09 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-09 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 11:05 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2007-11-09 11:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 12:15 ` Jan Djärv
2007-11-09 12:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-09 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 10:34 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-10 1:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 0:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-09 1:05 ` Kenichi Handa
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