On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:52:11PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Ok, I have been able to reproduce this and diagnose the problem. Your "3 1/2 > inch floppy link" file contains the "1/2" character, which in code page 437 ( > the original IBM PC character set ) is 0xBD. In UTF-8, this is an incomplete > multi byte sequence. Dosfsck therefore, is emitting invalid UTF-8 character > sequences by blindly spitting out the characters as they appear on disk. It > should be translating them to the current system character set ( normally > UTF-8 ) using the iconv library, and assuming the characters on disk are > CP-437 unless otherwise directed. I am therefore cloning this bug and > assigning it to dosfstools. > > In addition, when using iconv to convert this character to valid UTF-8, it > maps it to U+255C instead of U+00BD, so I'm cloning the bug there as well.
That is wrong. 0xBD in CP437 or CP850 page code is '╜' which corresponds to character U+255C as iconv says. 0xBD is the '½' character (U+00BD) in the CP1252 page code usually used by Windows. I therefore think this bug is invalid, please close it if you agree. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
