[OpenAFS-devel] AFS vs UNICODE

[Mattias Pantzare]

>  How do local filesystems handle this? I might very well create a file on my
>  ext3 filesystem usbkey with my locale set to ISO Latin-1 then try to access
>  it from another box with the charset set to UTF-16 (or something completely
>  different). Or maybe I named the file using some non-arabic character set?

On ext3 you have a problem.

If you use NTFS all is well as NTFS specifies how a filename should be
encoded. So the OS can translate for you.