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RE: ISO9660 & UTF-8

> >   - 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".

If the Joliet specification calls for UTF-16 (which, by the way, is used
at many other places besides Windows; e.g. MacOS, Epoc, ...) then characters
above U+FFFF should be represented as UTF-16 code pairs.  If the Joliet
specification calls for UCS-2, then you can still represent characters
above U+FFFF as UTF-16 code pairs, since that does not interfere with
UCS-2 per se (and the Joliet spec. should be updated).

(B.t.w. wasn't Joliet something prior to the latest ISO spec. on CD
file system formatting?  Any up-to-date references?  http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/jolspec.html#unicode seems
to specify UCS-2, and Unicode 1(!), which is really bad, for Korean
in particular; I just hope I stumbled on a really out-of-date document.
I should keep track of the CD formats, but haven't.  Sorry.)

		Kind regards
		/kent k

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