File name encoding issues in /boot
File name encoding issues in /boot
Posted Jan 31, 2012 10:34 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: File name encoding issues in /boot by gbrun
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge
OK, I admit that I see little purpose to assign non-ASCII names to files relevant to the boot loader.
Being able to label the files in one's native language seems perfectly reasonable to me, and shouldn't be restricted to people whose native language can be written acceptably in ASCII :)
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