Hello Londo_

It took me a while to compile the neccesary parts
for my unicode problem, but here I am. Attached
you will find a screenshot showing two Filenames 
I created with MacOS 9 on an HFS+ volume. In 
addition there is a small program that tries to convert
those Unicode strings (extracted with gdb from my hpls
tool.) The program failes however.

I use glibc-2.1.3-4a as found on the LinuxPPC 2000
distribution. As reading the documentation (Hidden 
behind "info libc") I understand, that the sort of
conversion I need is not supported yet:

> Umlaut-A
> ("Latin  capital  letter  A with diaeresis") can either be
> represented by the precomposed UCS code 0x00c4, or  alter-
> natively  as  the  combination  of a normal "Latin capital
> letter A" followed  by  a  "combining  diaeresis":  0x0041
> 0x0308. 

(One of the strings just starts with that encoding)

Ok I think I understand the problem, but I dont know yet
how to solve it. I could write a conversion of my own, but
before doing so please help me answering the following
questions:

1) Will glibc support such conversions in some forseable
   release ?

2) Does one of the inconv-modules support this encoding yet ?

if 1) and 2) are false, I fear I have to write an iconv module
myself.

3) How can I get such conversion support in a Kernel module ?
   There is some code in the kernel that already does
   Unicode (and other) encodings in include/linux/nls.h
   and /linux/fs/nls/...

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