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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
From:       Robert Nordier <rnordier () iafrica ! com>
Date:       1996-08-01 17:06:47
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> > AFAIK, DOS filenames containing characters >= 0x80 have never been
> > much used, or had much practical value.  So extensive special
> > provision for them almost seems misplaced.

Sander wrote:

> Actually they have at least around here. People just like to have 
> filenames with all those a", o", u" and even o~ (although that is one 
> which indeed does make troubles). Nothing ever happened except that nczip 
> refuses to pack them up.

and Andrey A. Chernov wrote:

> It isn't true, nationalized Win95 versions actively use it.
> F.e. Win95 Russian Edition use Russian (CP866) names
> for many folders/files.
> There is yet one interesting thing: DOS national charset
> used, not Windows one. For Russian Windows charset (CP1251)
> is different with DOS one (CP866). So Win95 does special efforts
> to convert between charsets.

Thanks for this feedback.  I was evidently completely wrong on this
issue. 

-- 
Robert Nordier

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