[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 470592] unable to see/create non-ASCII utf-8 filenames in vfat USB stricks

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--- Comment #10 from Muayyad Alsadi <alsadi at ojuba.org>  2009-03-24 12:51:55 EDT ---
the solution should be centralized

I have mentioned some scenario of failure in ML if we let this go per
application

let me mentioned one

someone is using kde, which uses HAL and it passes utf8 option
he created a file there

he logged off and log into gnome for example
gnome does not rely on hal so when he tries to open his files

a more tricky is a less famous WM or DE like lxde or Window Maker

he logged off and log into lxde for example

the more tricky part isn't this it's the opposite case


now we have several layers of complexity
and a very likely inconsistency and corruption 
as the default encoding assumed by the kernel can't be validated as opposed to
utf-8
and writing in one encoding and reading in another will for sure case problems

what would we tell most of the users as a reply "how to set utf-8 as default
encoding for all DEs and WMs just as it was in previous releases of Fedora ?" 

no matter what solution you take it should be centralized
preferably in the kernel or at least in system wide policy used by all the user
land tools

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