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

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 23 20:27:30 UTC 2015


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On 3/23/2015 3:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> So what will you do if you encounter a partition table which
> contains surrogates?

I believe iconv will treat them as invalid characters, as the spec
appears to intend.  I'd be fine with changing parted to accept them,
provided that the rest of the industry seems to be doing so, but
otherwise I agree with Brian that we should stick with what the spec says.


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