[OpenAFS-devel] AFS vs UNICODE

[Jeffrey Altman]

Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> 2008/7/19 Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>:
>> The Windows client code is correct.  The question is how we are going to
>> deal with this stuff
>> for platforms where the process locale is not guaranteed to be UTF-8.  We
>> need to figure out
>> how ZFS which does Unicode normalization is handling this.
> 
> If you tell ZFS to do unicode normailzation on a filesystem you have
> to use UTF-8.
> 
> Search for normalization on this page:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zfs-1m?a=view

After speaking with one of the relevant developers from Sun, the NFS and
CIFS file servers will enforce the use of UTF-8 as well if the data set
has been tagged to be Unicode.

We might be able to do something similar with volumes or directories
that are tagged to be Unicode only.

Jeffrey Altman