devfs file name NLS encoding?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Sep 13 22:11:54 PDT 2005
In message <200509140243.j8E2hXPY049090 at ns.init-main.com>, takawata at jp.freebsd.
org writes:
>Hi, as you know, we can create arbitaly file name on devfs.
>But for now, all file names on a devfs are encoded in ASCII.
>
>If we want to put Japanese file names in devfs, how should it
>be encoded? UTF-8 or something convinient for the source encoding?
All filenames in DEVFS are either created from the device driver
'C' source (as a string literal via sprintf mostly) or from userland
as symlink.
So whatever works.
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