linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Sanitize filesystem NLS handling

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:10:01 +0500
From:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@....usu.ru>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	agalakhov@...lrs.uran.ru, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sanitize filesystem NLS handling

OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> I'm talking about two filesystems on a system here, not two encoding
> on one filesystem. You can change locale on each filesystems, or each
> directory, of course if it's not vfat.

Note that you can still achieve this insane result by specifying iocharset 
manually for each mount. Only the defaults are changed, but many distros set 
the default iocharset to either iso8859-1 or utf8, both of which are wrong 
for you. So you won't notice any regressions after my patch :)

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov
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