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Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior)
| 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> |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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