On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> When Unix/Linux reads a CDROM catalog, most often it will first
> display a RockRidge catalog if present (which allows mapping UFS
> semantics and attriutes), ignoring the Joliet catalog, and then
> fallback to the basic ISO9660 catalog.

Not true. Linux reads Joliet catalogs if a RockRidge catalog can't be
found. I'm not sure how it deals with Unicode, but I believe the
utf8 option in /etc/fstab will let you set this.

> If the Windows output is "garbled", it just means that the Joliet
> extension created by your Linux tool is not correctly encoded 

Using mkisofs, -input-charset needs to be used to set the filesystem
character set.

> So it
> is much better to create CDROMs that use only the portable ISO9660
> format, 

Why? RockRidge and Joliet work just fine.

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