From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 1 10:39:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27249 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27212 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA18138; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:42:09 +0300 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:42:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Robert Nordier cc: hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, ache@nagual.ru Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? In-Reply-To: <199608011706.TAA00498@eac.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 >