File-name encodings and unzip

Markku Kolkka markkuk at tuubi.net
Sun Mar 4 10:55:37 UTC 2007


Colin Paul Adams kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 4. 
maaliskuuta 2007):
> Are file-names supposed to be encoded on Linux as UTF-8 or
> ISO-8859-1, or is it configurable?
>
> This system is FC5, but a more general answer would be
> appreciated if possible.

AFAIK, Linux (the kernel) doesn't care or know about the 
character encoding, it's all done at a higher level (glibc). The 
character encoding of glibc is configurable using the locale 
system. Fedora is set up by default to use UTF8.

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 Markku Kolkka
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