From: Miklos S. <mi...@sz...> - 2005-07-26 20:25:30
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> What should be the encoding used for filenames in FUSE ? i.e. how do > I guess how the filenames will be presented to the user of the > filesystem ? The filesystem should not care. It should treat filenames as binary blobls of data, and not try to interpret character encoding. > Is there any translation applied by VFS or FUSE on the > filenames supplied ? No. > 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 |