[Patch] cd9660/msdosfs/ntfs/libiconv mutli-byte extention

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Tue Sep 23 05:09:43 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 20:04:16 +0900, R. Imura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:09:03AM +0900, R. Imura wrote:
> > I made a patch for multi-byte character extension
> > of three file systems with enhanced LIBICONV in the
> > kernel. File systems are cd9660(joliet part), msdosfs,
> > and ntfs.
> > 
> >  http://www.ryu16.org/FreeBSD/kiconv/kiconv-5_current-20030921.diff
> 
> I should tell you one important thing that about 200 Japanese have
> been using this patch and there aren't any problem reported yet.

All you need at this stage is to find one committer who understand
multibyte/asian stuff enough (it is not me) and can integrate this patches
into kernel module. I personally don't think it belongs to port, but,
rather KLD module, especially if it covers most of Unicode.


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