Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:42:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, ache@nagual.ru Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960801203259.17950B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199608011706.TAA00498@eac.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > AFAIK, DOS filenames containing characters >= 0x80 have never been > > > much used, or had much practical value. So extensive special > > > provision for them almost seems misplaced. > > Sander wrote: > > > Actually they have at least around here. People just like to have > > filenames with all those a", o", u" and even o~ (although that is one > > which indeed does make troubles). Nothing ever happened except that nczip > > refuses to pack them up. > > and Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > It isn't true, nationalized Win95 versions actively use it. > > F.e. Win95 Russian Edition use Russian (CP866) names > > for many folders/files. > > There is yet one interesting thing: DOS national charset > > used, not Windows one. For Russian Windows charset (CP1251) > > is different with DOS one (CP866). So Win95 does special efforts > > to convert between charsets. > > Thanks for this feedback. I was evidently completely wrong on this > issue. You were right within a context. That's what the lists are for. Sander > > -- > Robert Nordier >
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