Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch

[Heiko Voigt]

On 13.12.2005, at 1:15pm, Doug McLaren wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:04:27PM +1300, Heiko Voigt wrote:
>
> | I asked google for a definition for UNIX but as it seems there no 
> unique
> | definition. I belief that http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ Darwin 
> as it is
> | based on a BSD4.4 system can be called UNIX. So in this case your 
> statement
> | seems wrong because my "UNIX" forbids some characters.
>
> Are you sure it's not your filesystem that forbids those characters?
> MacOS X can use ufs, right?  Does it allow those characters there?
>
> Which characters, exactly, anyways?

Its the characters 'äöü' which are in the latin1 table at 228,246,252. 
The filesystem is capable of these characters but it uses UTF-8 to 
encode them. I use HFS+ and have no ufs formatted drives on hand, so I 
can't test it at the moment.

Heiko