kern/131743: utf-8 file names of ext2 partitions cause problems

Wed Feb 18 04:20:03 PST 2009

The following reply was made to PR kern/131743; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at googlemail.com>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at saunalahti.fi>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/131743: utf-8 file names of ext2 partitions cause problems
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:16:09 +0000

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 Interestingly LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 works well with xterm, but with xterm only.
 All other apps from the ports tree like VLC or any KDE app like konsole 
 or konqueror
 do not support utf-8. Perhaps we should reassign this bug to the ports 
 project.

 Or do you think about a kernel charset conversion for 
 filenames(iocharset=utf8)
  as an additional option?

 Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
 > On 2009-02-16, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
 >   
 >>> Class:          sw-bug
 >>>       
 >
 >   
 >> FreeBSD refuses to mount ext2 partitions with the iocharset=utf8 and
 >> utf8 options. The consequence are not only wrongly displayed file
 >> names.
 >>     
 >
 > I don't think this is a bug. For me FreeBSD ext2fs works fine with UTF-8
 > encoded file names providing that you have configured locale settings
 > correctly.
 >
 > Do you expect "iocharset=utf8" and "utf8" mount options to convert
 > file names to some other encoding? AFAIK even Linux doesn't support such
 > options for ext2.
 >
 >   

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 Interestingly LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 works well with xterm, but with xterm
 only.<br>
 All other apps from the ports tree like VLC or any KDE app like konsole
 or konqueror <br>
 do not support utf-8. Perhaps we should reassign this bug to the ports
 project.<br>
 <br>
 Or do you think about a kernel charset conversion for
 filenames(iocharset=utf8)<br>
 &nbsp;as an additional option?<br>
 <br>
 <br>
 Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
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  cite="mid:20090216173832.GA775 at a91-153-125-115.elisa-laajakaista.fi"
  type="cite">
   <pre wrap="">On 2009-02-16, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
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       <pre wrap="">Class:          sw-bug
       </pre>
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   <pre wrap=""><!---->
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   <blockquote type="cite">
     <pre wrap="">FreeBSD refuses to mount ext2 partitions with the iocharset=utf8 and
 utf8 options. The consequence are not only wrongly displayed file
 names.
     </pre>
   </blockquote>
   <pre wrap=""><!---->
 I don't think this is a bug. For me FreeBSD ext2fs works fine with UTF-8
 encoded file names providing that you have configured locale settings
 correctly.

 Do you expect "iocharset=utf8" and "utf8" mount options to convert
 file names to some other encoding? AFAIK even Linux doesn't support such
 options for ext2.

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