Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Hrm.... 8-bit character codes "file doesn't exist" problems...
From: Neil McAllister (nmcallister@primo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 13:05:25 EST
> Besides, there's no real reason why Netatalk should convert
>file names to 7 bit characters for Unix storage, since Unix
>filesystems are perfectly capable of using the full 8 bit character
>set space (minus the nul byte) in file names.
>
>Decent shells are easy to configure to pass 8 bit characters, too.
Yeah, but how do you key in a Mac bullet character (Option-8) on a Unix
keyboard? And since the character code for Unix will map to a different
character than the same code on the Mac, how do you know if you've made any
typos?
-- Neil McAllister, Systems Administrator Primo Angeli Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.primo.com mailto:nmcallister@primo.com
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