James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Christopher Smith wrote:
>   
>> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
>>     
>>> For your immediate needs, have you tried making your CD on a system with
>>>  utf-8 filesystem encoding? I guess maybe Windows uses utf-16; here
>>> again are some simple experiments that I haven't gotten around to.
>>>   
>>>       
>> It's not UTF-16. It's the old Unicode 1.x, which is fixed-width, 16-bit
>> characters.
>>
>> It occurs to me that some characters are reserved in both HFS+ and
>> Windows, so you might run in to problems there, although UTF-7 and other
>> solutions like it won't address that either. You probably should just
>> use tr and/or Perl for those specific cases.
>>     
>
> Can you (or somebody) enlighten me on CD filesystem encoding capabilities?
>
> All I can remember is getting confused a long time ago about rocky road
> (wait that's something else) and extensions thereof.
>   
You've got your ISO 9660. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
Then you have your Rock Ridge Extensions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ridge
Then you have your Joliet extensions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_%28file_system%29

Rock Ridge was popular with Unix folks, but everyone seems to have moved
towards Joliet.

--Chris

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