Kernel feature request: CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 [released]
asked 2014-01-04 20:10:45 +0300
Please enable the above kernel option. It is OK if it is a module, albeit I think it should be builtin because of its small size.
Reasoning:
The default locale in Jolla uses UTF-8, as evidenced by running locale (returns ES_es.utf8 on mine)
Without this module, you can't use iocharset=utf-8 when mounting most non-POSIX filesystems (fat, ntfs, cifs), resulting in Mojibake.
The module is less than a KiB and should not have any side effects.
Additionally, I have to ponder if the fact that the kernel's default iocharset is "iso8859-1" is a bug or not. Since at least in Spanish locale seems to be utf8, it would mean that extended characters are being translated in an incorrect way when e.g. writing to a FAT SD card ....
AIUI, with the current configuration, programs writing to SD card use UTF-8 filenames (because that's what locale says), then FAT driver discards that and incorrectly interprets filenames as "iso8859-1" (because that's what mount/default iocharset says), then converted to UTF-16 to store into FAT. (Or should I say corrupted?).
(However, changing the default iocharset WILL have side effects).
