Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.

[Lukasz Stelmach]

Bodo Eggert napisaÅ(a):

>>VFAT uses unicode?  I thought it used the same codepage silyness as FAT
>>did, since after all ti was just supposed to be a long filename
>>extension to FAT.  Do they use unicode in the long filenames only?
> 
> 
> It uses two codepages, one for short names and one for long names.
> The long name charset defaults to iso-8859-1,

Please look below where you have got "t.e.s.t.". That is obviously
UTF-16 (below FFFF) not iso-8859-1.

> and the short one to cp437

Yes.

> 0600  41 74 00 65 00 73 00 74  00 e4 00 0f 00 db f6 00  At.e.s.t ........
> 0610  fc 00 df 00 74 00 65 00  73 00 00 00 74 00 00 00  ....t.e. s...t...
> 0620  54 45 53 54 8e 99 7e 31  20 20 20 20 00 00 d0 58  TEST..~1     ...X
> 0630  d1 32 d1 32 00 00 d0 58  d1 32 00 00 00 00 00 00  .2.2...X .2......


Has anybode seen characters above 0xFFFF on the vfat?

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