Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re:
JFS default behavior)
[Posted February 17, 2004 by corbet]
| From: |
| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-osdl.org> |
| To: |
| Jamie Lokier <jamie-AT-shareable.org> |
| Subject: |
| Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re:
JFS default behavior) |
| Date: |
| Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:48:59 -0800 (PST) |
| Cc: |
| Alex Belits <abelits-AT-phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>,
Marc Lehmann <pcg-AT-schmorp.de>, Linux kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org> |
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > I can point at the example of this "solution" that happened years ago
> > when UCS-2 was all the rage, and it got hardcoded and enforced by NTFS
> > and everything that handles it. Who is laughing about that decision now?
>
> We are all laughing ;)
Crying. Sadly, when MS makes a whopper of a mistake (and they do it all
too often), we're left having to work with the resulting breakage.
I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane (*).
Linus
(*) Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell.
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