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

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:44:54 -0500
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 6/9] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> writes:

> 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?

Oh, I think mentioned this in the cover letter, I removed the utf8 parts
from this version for no good reason.  It is already part of v2. :)

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi