Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Myr=E9en?= (jem@vistacom.fi)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 09:28:46 +0300 (EET DST)


On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:

> The OSTA-UDF(tm) filesystem I'm working on supports compressed Unicode.
> Basically, the first byte is a flag inidcating how to expand the following
> bytes:
> 8 = high byte is 0 and low byte is from data stream
> 16 = high byte is followed by low byte in the data stream
> By the ISO standards, this is CS0 or a character set defined by agreement.

Not yet another Unicode encoding format?! What's wrong with
UTF-8? Not Invented Here?

Johan Myreen
jem@iki.fi