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

[Phillip Susi]

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On 3/24/2015 1:06 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> If you read a partition table, and a partition entry you are not 
> modifying gets changed from surrogates to U+FFFD, that is
> corruption.
> 
> I suspect, but I don't know, that UCS-2 was specified before UTF-16
> was created.  It also means UEFI software isn't required to
> interpret surrogates, and would typically display them as ?? or
> something like that, which isn't really a problem.

Ahh, then there's no problem since parted does not modify the existing
string unless told to.  That is to say, it does not automatically read
the string, translate it to UTF-8 ( where the surrogates would become
?? ), then translate and write it back.


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