-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/2015 1:06 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > If you read a partition table, and a partition entry you are not > modifying gets changed from surrogates to U+FFFD, that is > corruption. > > I suspect, but I don't know, that UCS-2 was specified before UTF-16 > was created. It also means UEFI software isn't required to > interpret surrogates, and would typically display them as ?? or > something like that, which isn't really a problem.
Ahh, then there's no problem since parted does not modify the existing string unless told to. That is to say, it does not automatically read the string, translate it to UTF-8 ( where the surrogates would become ?? ), then translate and write it back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVEZwhAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RLr0H/R2r7pCiExlf4f/vaB4SgFON 0qmNVZPoEUkBaHQ8uN8Sz8HBEVX/+/Zsi+Q/+TJ1LFrgE5quUzpskxHGZin8kQnc 9Wzyb71hdnSAKPg4JxQkWPRRKwWE+eoU8Nb/KSWun6KRcMLNTvTIXfd/SzyyKnn6 I6NAbplkHI6xoKFyEiK1PzAfeQiGP3XFJc4ps6OZw9C2n+u1vGURVq7mAYGYWkKN +JotOyhSZEMLbqbWO641zwMksYLpZadNvfC50bzLrZLGg5HjAEXB5mWl5vvvwJOw rpqdL+5XfBGDQ23JT5T60rOEf6FvHZ1fmNkJnCQADQ9UB6/n4Aeaj9Hun0jM13U= =btD4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
