[OpenAFS] home on afs woes

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:40:13 -0800


Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:

>   Therefore, for a Unicode directory entry there must be two strings
>   stored:  the normalized string that is used for directory searches and
>   a display string that is the string the user entered.

> Is there precedent for this?  Do any other unicode based file systems do
> it this way?

Most other network protocols do StringPrep and the IETF actually requires
it now.  It is definitely the right thing to do.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>