Re: Bug#333776: linux-2.6: vfat driver in 2.6.12 is not properly case-insensitive

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> writes:
> >> This is known bug. For fixing this bug cleanly, we will need to much
> >> change the both of nls and filesystems.
> >
> > Using per locale collation sequences? :-)
> >
> > Do you know, how Windows handles the problem of differing collation 
> > sequences on the file system?
> 
> I don't know. Why do we need to care the collation sequences here?
> 
> > Or is the file system always dependend on the locale of the Windows
> > version, which created the file system?
> 
> Probably, yes. I think we need to know on-disk filename's code set.

If FAT stores the filenames in 8 bits (non-UTF) then yes, it will be in 
the current locale/code page of the Windows system writing them (e.g. that 
happens with the names of EAs in NTFS).

If the names are stored in 16-bit Unicode like on NTFS then obviously they 
are completely locale/code page independent.  (Makes my life in NTFS a 
_lot_ easier.  Especially since the NTFS volume contains an upcase table 
for the full 16-bit Unicode which we load and use to do upcasing for the 
case insensitive comparisons...)

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
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