[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Sven Barth]

On 14.09.2011 09:08, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> Am 14.09.2011 07:50, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Martin Schreiber<mse00000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Linux expects an array of bytes in filenames (no encoding, no utf-8)
>>> AFAIK.
>>
>> That's a nice theory, but:
>>
>> All Linux distributions that I know use utf-8
>> Android uses utf-8
>> Meego uses utf-8
>>
>> So, do you have any concrete example of new releases of Linux using
>> something different from UTF-8 for filenames?
>>
> Some Samba shares for example and there still are many "old" Linux
> systems in the wild. Anyway, I simply wanted to remember the fact.

Another good example: FAT. I'm now as far to avoid umlauts and such when 
I copy files from Linux to FAT or the other way round, because with the 
default mount settings they are invalid characters in one of the two... 
(and I didn't yet bother to fiddle around with that ^^)

Regards,
Sven