# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only # # Native language support configuration # menuconfig NLS tristate "Native language support" help The base Native Language Support. A number of filesystems depend on it (e.g. FAT, JOLIET, NT, BEOS filesystems), as well as the ability of some filesystems to use native languages (NCP, SMB). If unsure, say Y. To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nls_base. if NLS config NLS_DEFAULT string "Default NLS Option" default "iso8859-1" help The default NLS used when mounting file system. Note, that this is the NLS used by your console, not the NLS used by a specific file system (if different) to store data (filenames) on a disk. Currently, the valid values are: big5, cp437, cp737, cp775, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861, cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, cp932, cp936, cp949, cp950, cp1251, cp1255, euc-jp, euc-kr, gb2312, iso8859-1, iso8859-2, iso8859-3, iso8859-4, iso8859-5, iso8859-6, iso8859-7, iso8859-8, iso8859-9, iso8859-13, iso8859-14, iso8859-15, koi8-r, koi8-ru, koi8-u, sjis, tis-620, macroman, utf8. If you specify a wrong value, it will use the built-in NLS; compatible with iso8859-1. If unsure, specify it as "iso8859-1". config NLS_CODEPAGE_437 tristate "Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage that is used in the United States and parts of Canada. This is recommended. config NLS_CODEPAGE_737 tristate "Codepage 737 (Greek)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage that is used for Greek. If unsure, say N. config NLS_CODEPAGE_775 tristate "Codepage 775 (Baltic Rim)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage that is used for the Baltic Rim Languages (Latvian and Lithuanian). If unsure, say N. config NLS_CODEPAGE_850 tristate "Codepage 850 (Europe)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage that is used for much of Europe -- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, and [add more countries here]. It has some characters useful to many European languages that are not part of the US codepage 437. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_CODEPAGE_852 tristate "Codepage 852 (Central/Eastern Europe)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Latin 2 codepage used by DOS for much of Central and Eastern Europe. It has all the required characters for these languages: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Irish, German, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (Latin transcription), Slovak, Slovenian, and Sorbian. config NLS_CODEPAGE_855 tristate "Codepage 855 (Cyrillic)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Cyrillic. config NLS_CODEPAGE_857 tristate "Codepage 857 (Turkish)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Turkish. config NLS_CODEPAGE_860 tristate "Codepage 860 (Portuguese)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Portuguese. config NLS_CODEPAGE_861 tristate "Codepage 861 (Icelandic)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Icelandic. config NLS_CODEPAGE_862 tristate "Codepage 862 (Hebrew)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Hebrew. config NLS_CODEPAGE_863 tristate "Codepage 863 (Canadian French)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Canadian French. config NLS_CODEPAGE_864 tristate "Codepage 864 (Arabic)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Arabic. config NLS_CODEPAGE_865 tristate "Codepage 865 (Norwegian, Danish)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for the Nordic European countries. config NLS_CODEPAGE_866 tristate "Codepage 866 (Cyrillic/Russian)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Cyrillic/Russian. config NLS_CODEPAGE_869 tristate "Codepage 869 (Greek)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Greek. config NLS_CODEPAGE_936 tristate "Simplified Chinese charset (CP936, GB2312)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Simplified Chinese(GBK). config NLS_CODEPAGE_950 tristate "Traditional Chinese charset (Big5)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Traditional Chinese(Big5). config NLS_CODEPAGE_932 tristate "Japanese charsets (Shift-JIS, EUC-JP)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Shift-JIS or EUC-JP. To use EUC-JP, you can use 'euc-jp' as mount option or NLS Default value during kernel configuration, instead of 'cp932'. config NLS_CODEPAGE_949 tristate "Korean charset (CP949, EUC-KR)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for UHC. config NLS_CODEPAGE_874 tristate "Thai charset (CP874, TIS-620)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Thai. config NLS_ISO8859_8 tristate "Hebrew charsets (ISO-8859-8, CP1255)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for ISO8859-8, the Hebrew character set. config NLS_CODEPAGE_1250 tristate "Windows CP1250 (Slavic/Central European Languages)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CDROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Windows CP-1250 character set, which works for most Latin-written Slavic and Central European languages: Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovene. config NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 tristate "Windows CP1251 (Bulgarian, Belarusian)" help The Microsoft FAT file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called DOS codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on DOS/Windows partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the DOS codepage for Russian and Bulgarian and Belarusian. config NLS_ASCII tristate "ASCII (United States)" help An ASCII NLS module is needed if you want to override the DEFAULT NLS with this very basic charset and don't want any non-ASCII characters to be translated. config NLS_ISO8859_1 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 1 character set, which covers most West European languages such as Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. It is also the default for the US. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_ISO8859_2 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2; Slavic/Central European Languages)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 2 character set, which works for most Latin-written Slavic and Central European languages: Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovene. config NLS_ISO8859_3 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-3 (Latin 3; Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 3 character set, which is popular with authors of Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, and Turkish. config NLS_ISO8859_4 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-4 (Latin 4; old Baltic charset)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 4 character set which introduces letters for Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian. It is an incomplete predecessor of Latin 7. config NLS_ISO8859_5 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for ISO8859-5, a Cyrillic character set with which you can type Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian. Note that the charset KOI8-R is preferred in Russia. config NLS_ISO8859_6 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-6 (Arabic)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for ISO8859-6, the Arabic character set. config NLS_ISO8859_7 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-7 (Modern Greek)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for ISO8859-7, the Modern Greek character set. config NLS_ISO8859_9 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-9 (Latin 5; Turkish)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 5 character set, and it replaces the rarely needed Icelandic letters in Latin 1 with the Turkish ones. Useful in Turkey. config NLS_ISO8859_13 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-13 (Latin 7; Baltic)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 7 character set, which supports modern Baltic languages including Latvian and Lithuanian. config NLS_ISO8859_14 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-14 (Latin 8; Celtic)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 8 character set, which adds the last accented vowels for Welsh (aka Cymraeg) (and Manx Gaelic) that were missing in Latin 1. <http://linux.speech.cymru.org/> has further information. config NLS_ISO8859_15 tristate "NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the Latin 9 character set, which covers most West European languages such as Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Latin 9 is an update to Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) that removes a handful of rarely used characters and instead adds support for Estonian, corrects the support for French and Finnish, and adds the new Euro character. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_KOI8_R tristate "NLS KOI8-R (Russian)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the preferred Russian character set. config NLS_KOI8_U tristate "NLS KOI8-U/RU (Ukrainian, Belarusian)" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the preferred Ukrainian (koi8-u) and Belarusian (koi8-ru) character sets. config NLS_MAC_ROMAN tristate "Codepage macroman" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for much of Europe -- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, and [add more countries here]. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_CELTIC tristate "Codepage macceltic" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Celtic. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_CENTEURO tristate "Codepage maccenteuro" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Central Europe. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_CROATIAN tristate "Codepage maccroatian" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Croatian. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_CYRILLIC tristate "Codepage maccyrillic" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Cyrillic. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_GAELIC tristate "Codepage macgaelic" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Gaelic. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_GREEK tristate "Codepage macgreek" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Greek. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_ICELAND tristate "Codepage maciceland" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Iceland. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_INUIT tristate "Codepage macinuit" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Inuit. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_ROMANIAN tristate "Codepage macromanian" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Romanian. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_MAC_TURKISH tristate "Codepage macturkish" help The Apple HFS file system family can deal with filenames in native language character sets. These character sets are stored in so-called MAC codepages. You need to include the appropriate codepage if you want to be able to read/write these filenames on Mac partitions correctly. This does apply to the filenames only, not to the file contents. You can include several codepages; say Y here if you want to include the Mac codepage that is used for Turkish. If unsure, say Y. config NLS_UTF8 tristate "NLS UTF-8" help If you want to display filenames with native language characters from the Microsoft FAT file system family or from JOLIET CD-ROMs correctly on the screen, you need to include the appropriate input/output character sets. Say Y here for the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode/ISO9646 universal character set. config NLS_UCS2_UTILS tristate endif # NLS