Heads-up: pcfs with non-ASCII character filenames support

Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:35:23 -0700
From: Narayana Kadoor <Narayana.Kadoor at Sun dot COM>
To: on-all at eng dot sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads-up: pcfs with non-ASCII character filenames support

If you do not use pcfs with non-ASCII filenames, you can ignore this mail.

My putback for the following warrants a mini heads-up message

PSARC 2005/428  PCFS support of non-ASCII filenames
4089052 RFE: pcfs needs to support non ASCII character filename.

This putback addresses the need for Solaris pcfs to support filenames with
non-ASCII characters, which are encoded as LFN (long filename) in
Unicode ( UTF-16) on media. Files are read and converted into UTF-8
encoded Unicode for display on UTF-8 locales.

In summary, any long file names created with Windows or any other
compatible operating systems can now be viewed correctly in Solaris by
using UTF-8 locales. (Previously, nothing or gibberish and thus unusable
filenames showed.) Similarly, files created under Solaris with UTF-8
locales can be read with Windows or any other compatible operating
systems.

Here is a screen-shot with non-ASCII filenames.
http://jurassic.eng/net/kadoor.sfbay/export/home/ksn/pcfs/non-ASCII.jpg

Testing has been done with USB sticks, memory cards, portable music
juke-boxes,
GPS system, to make sure nothing else is broken. If you find any bugs,
please file them under solaris/kernel/pcfs.

thanks,
Narayana