freebsd and utf-8 directory names

dt71 at gmx.com dt71 at gmx.com
Thu Jul 3 08:51:13 UTC 2014


Kevin Lo wrote, On 07/03/2014 05:33:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:27:07AM +0200, dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
>> But now, eat this: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191540
>
> Well, I'm going to close that PR. :-)
> First,
> [...]
> Let me know if that works for you, thanks.

Yes, that did work. When I'll have more time and resources, I'll try to find out why/what didn't work at the time of the IRC conversation. It is possible that Windows was using something like UTF-16, but I tested only UTF-8 -- though the apparent unavailability of any UTF-16 locale on my system indicates that base FreeBSD installations are not able to properly mount commonly-used FAT32 partitions (think about flash drives).

Another "next step" is to find out whether a regular user can set a locale environment variable and then create a file that system utilities -- which have one pre-set locale -- (think about disk space usage quota enforcers) won't handle well.


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