Re: Linux 2.4.17-xfs vs previous XFS versions and certain non-us characters in filenames

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

D. Stimits wrote:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:54:18PM +0100, H?kan Lindqvist wrote:
> >
> > > There is, however, another (perhaps also related) issue!
> > > If I create a file named "?" I can't remove it afterwards.
> > Is this a real ? or a ascii unprintable character >127 ?
> >
> > -Andi
>
> I'm curious if the extended characters over 127 from the Latin-1
> character set require support at the filesystem level? I imagine that
> some of the wide character requirements of Japanese kanji would make it
> rather "interesting" if the filesystem has to actually deal with it. I'm
> beginning to discover the pain of trying to internationalize software on
> X11, and curious about how far character sets actually "invade" the
> system.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx

This is something of an xfs special in this case, the hash algorithm 
used in xfs
directories does math on the names, and in removing the -funsigned-char from
the Makefiles, I forgot about this.

Steve