On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 5:20 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > There is currently one limitation with the HFS patch as it doesn't allow > setting > a custom volume name and hard-wires it to "untitled" [4]. This is because the > original code uses an Apple-specifc function to convert UTF-8 into Mac > encoding [5], > if someone has a suggestion how to implement this encoding conversion on > Linux, I > would be happy to integrate this change into the (current) »hfsprogs« package > as > this would fix an open bug [6].
Apple has a modified iconv, if I recall correctly. It is modified for their filesystem, and it properly handles filenames on OS X. I don't know about MacOS 9, however. An open source port of Apple iconv with utf-8 support is available at https://github.com/fumiyas/libiconv-utf8mac . Jeff
