linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/18] fat: Fix iocharset=utf8 mount option

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Message-ID: <874jrwfowe.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date:   Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:10:57 +0900
From:   OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/18] fat: Fix iocharset=utf8 mount option

Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org> writes:

>> This patch fixes the issue of utf-8 partially only. I think we can't
>> still recommend only partially working one.
>
> With this patch FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET=utf8 is same what was
> FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8=y without this patch. And option FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8 was
> recommended in description before "select the next option instead if you
> would like to use UTF-8 encoded file names by default."

It is not recommending to use UTF-8 as default, right? I wanted to say
no warning and recommend has big difference, and I can't recommend the
incompatible behavior that creates the case sensitive filename.

>> Still broken, so I think we still need the warning here (would be
>> tweaked warning).
>
> There was no warning before for utf8=1. And with this patch
> iocharset=utf8 should have same behavior as what was utf8=1 before this
> patch.
>
> So if we should show some warning for utf8=1 then it is somehow not
> related to this patch and it should be done separately, possible also to
> the current codebase and before this patch.

Sure, you are right.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>