Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch

[Joerg Schilling]

Heiko Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Are you sure it's not your filesystem that forbids those characters?
> > MacOS X can use ufs, right?  Does it allow those characters there?
> >
> > Which characters, exactly, anyways?
>
> Its the characters 'äöü' which are in the latin1 table at 228,246,252. 
> The filesystem is capable of these characters but it uses UTF-8 to 
> encode them. I use HFS+ and have no ufs formatted drives on hand, so I 
> can't test it at the moment.

HFS+ is not POSIX compliant. POSIX requires a case sensitive filesystem.
There may be more problems with HFS+

UTF-8 could only be the universal solution if there would be no other codings
out in the world.....

Creating a filesystem with fixed character encoding creates problems in a 
multi user system (like UNIX) where each process may use it's own different
coding. This is why filesystems usually allow any non-null character in
path names and why UTF-8 has been defined in a way that makes sure that
no character > 127 uses a '/' inside any octet of it's coding.

Jörg

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