Re: Bug in vfat support

Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:27:51 +0200

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> Files or directories created on a vfat system from linux, and
> containing characters like "ø" (ø) are incorrectly stored. The
> long filename is "Døll", while linux incorrectly stores the short
> filename as "D°LL", rather than the correct "DØLL".
>
> linux 2.0.29, fat32-0.2.7

It depends... It depends on current charset. And since kernel should
not known about charsets (what if I plug your disc in my computer?),
this is hard. _TOO_ hard.

BTW where to get fat32 patch?
Pavel

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