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From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:57:19PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev scribbled:
| Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote:
| 
| > At Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:38:58 +0200,
| > Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| > > > But your solution is no effective and much harmful to multibyte users.
| > > You are not quite right. For multibyte users my solution (workaround?) is at least equial to the previous no-unicode case . I do
| > > not see how it can be harmful.
| >
| > 1. In just your workaround, multibyte users will take no merits.
| >
| > 2. Based on your direction, the size of loadable conversion table
| >    will immensely expand for multibyte support, or be abandoned.
| >    Fundamental misdesign will lead to such unfortunate situation.
| >    So I said your solution was harmful.
| 
| Proposed by me patches is no way an official direction of the Project and as I advertised are merely a workaround to allow non-English
| users to read CD with native filenames until comprehensive iconv for kernel will be introduced. I would be glad if someone will
| replace my hack with more generic solution.

I think that making this "hack" a russian/xxxfs port and I think
everyone can be happy. If you want unicode FS like this, perhaps you
can have a sysutils/unicodefs.  :) 

After all, what are KLD's for but modularity? :)


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