devfs file name NLS encoding?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200509140243.j8E2hXPY049090 at ns.init-main.com>, takawata at jp.freebsd.
org writes:
>Hi, as you know, we can create arbitaly file name on devfs.
>But for now, all file names on a devfs are encoded in ASCII.
>
>If we want to put Japanese file names in devfs, how should  it 
>be encoded? UTF-8 or something convinient for the source encoding?

All filenames in DEVFS are either created from the device driver
'C' source (as a string literal via sprintf mostly) or from userland
as symlink.

So whatever works.

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