[parted-devel] [PATCH] GPT strings are UCS-2LE not UTF-16

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 23 01:20:23 UTC 2015


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On 03/21/2015 11:32 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It isn't about the UEFI spec but rather what iconv expects.  The
> string "UTF-16LE" produces littleendian UTF-16 without BOM.

Right, and that is exactly what Brian said it should be, I believe
because the UEFI spec states that it is LE, so there is no need for
the BOM.  What I'm not sure about is the difference between UCS-2 and
UTF-16.



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