2004-06-20 22:20:36

by Giuseppe Bilotta

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] FAT: don't use "utf8" charset and NLS_DEFAULT

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 18:59, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.1770, 2004/06/20 09:59:33-07:00, [email protected]
> >
> > [PATCH] FAT: don't use "utf8" charset and NLS_DEFAULT
> >
> > Recently, some distributors have set "utf8" to NLS_DEFAULT, therefore,
> > FAT uses the "iocharset=utf8" as default. But, since "iocharset=utf8"
> > doesn't provide the function (lower <-> upper conversion) which FAT
> > needs, so FAT can't provide suitable behavior.
>
> does Microsoft store UTF8 in vfat ?

Long names are UTF16-encoded IIRC.

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