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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
From:       Narvi <narvi () haldjas ! folklore ! ee>
Date:       1996-08-01 17:42:08
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Robert Nordier wrote:

> > > 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. 

You were right within a context. That's what the lists are for.

	Sander

> 
> -- 
> Robert Nordier
> 

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