Re: [fuse-devel] Filenames encoding ?

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> > Context : I implement a filesystem where filenames are based on data
> > received from an external system, encoded using some charset
> > e.g. utf-8.
>
> In that case, you either force the user to use the same encoding as
> the underlying filesystem, or implement conversions in your filesystem
> using libiconv, based on mount options or locale settings.
>
> Miklos

ok. I suspect though that the end user is not free to choose any encoding :=
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filesystem should still return filename strings where vfs or fuse can find =
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store the '/' and '\0' characters i.e. this rules out filenames encoded in=
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UTF-16 for example. Am I correct ?


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