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

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

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, hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > 	[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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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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