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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
