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

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Fri May 16 21:43:46 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:56:02AM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> There was a problem using UTF-16, it was writing the Byte Order Mark
> before the string which caused problems with older versions of parted
> reading the partition name. The test was skipping these 2 bytes when
> checking the written string.
> 
> * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Switch to UCS-2LE for GPT Partition names
> * tests/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh: Update the test
> ---
>  libparted/labels/gpt.c     | 4 ++--
>  tests/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Scratch this, it doesn't work on ppc64.

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