linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 6/9] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

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Message-ID: <20181121050148.GC26006@thunk.org>
Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:01:48 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 6/9] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 05:12:17PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Basic NLS support is required in e2fsprogs because of fsck, which
> needsto calculate dx hashes for encoding aware filesystems.  this patch
> implements this infrastructure as well as ascii support.
> 
> We don't need to do all the dance of versioning as we do in the kernel,
> because we know before-hand which encodings and versions we
> support (those we know how to store in the sb), so it is simpler just to
> create static tables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>

I see the case folding tables for ASCII, but it looks like the case
folding tables for Unicode aren't included.  Am I missing something?

	       	   	   	  	     - Ted