Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:06:47 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: terry@lambert.org, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, ache@nagual.ru Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? Message-ID: <199608011706.TAA00498@eac.iafrica.com>
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> > 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. -- Robert Nordier
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