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Re: ISO9660 & UTF-8
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:44:13AM +0100, Oyvind A. Holm wrote:
> On 2002-03-01 23:52 Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > Greetings
> > 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?). Unfortunately, I have neither RW
> > media neither Windows readily available for testing
>
> As you say, Rock Ridge have no problems with this -- this is the
> recommended way to do it. When it comes to Joliet the problems begin to
Especially since now I looked into mkisofs sources and indeed there
does not seem any support for utf-8 input encoding.
> pile up:
>
> - Joliet use Unicode by default. Every character is represented in
> UTF-16, so characters above U+FFFF can't be stored properly when
> done the windows way.
Doesn't it use surrogate pairs? I thought that was "the windows way".
>
> After experiencing this again and again, I'm really frustrated of the
> crippled design of Joliet, so most of the time I drop the whole Joliet
> support when I have long filenames or lots of UTF-8 filenames. Things
> would have worked so well if there was a way of forcing windows to use
> the TRANS.TBL file which is represented in every directory on the disc.
> I'm not into windows stuff, but I guess there should be a way to do
> this with some .dll magic or what?
Or, if I could somehow generate separate names for rockridge and
joliet... I am primarily after linux-readable CD's, I would be content
with windows seeing only ascii transliterated filenames.
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