From: Nicolas Welte (no_spam_at_x1541.de)
Date: 2005-05-11 22:27:17
Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> Using FAT causes more trouble than expected. (Oh well, newer file
> systems have problems with file names as well. Take the case-insensitive
> Apple HFS+, for example. If I have understood the technical notes correctly,
> the case-folding will effectively treat strings consisting of non-Latin
> letters as empty strings. This would mean that e.g., Greek, Russian or
> Japanese users would have to give Latin names to their documents.)
I once had a bad experience with Japanese filenames on NT4 Server: a guest
professor from Japan brought his Notebook with Japanese Windows installed and
we hooked it up to the net (after struggling with installing a network card
with english only drivers). The problem was that he stored files with
Japanese filenames onto the server and then left. The files he left us were
completely useless, I wasn't even able to delete them. They're still there,
and it's more then 5 years ago ;)
Nicolas
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