Re: ISO9660 & UTF-8

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Radovan Garabik wrote on 2002-03-01 22:52 UTC:
> I am going to burn some CD's with filenames in UTF-8, 
> and before doing so, I would like to ask if there are
> any known problems. I do not expect them with RockRidge extension,
> but a big unknown is interoperability with different 
> versions of Windows (what charset is default for joliet extension?).

If I'm not mistaken, joliet uses UCS-2 or UTF-16.

Make sure that you have a *very* recent version of mkisofs, as older
ones do not know about UTF-8 (which has to be converted my mkisofs for
joliet, but not for RockRidge).

Markus

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