[parted-devel] [PATCH] GPT strings are UCS-2LE not UTF-16
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Mar 6 00:45:53 UTC 2015
On 05/17/2014 02:17 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 05/16/2014 07:45 PM, 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.
>
> Good catch, I didn't realize UTF-16 inserted the BOM when writing.
> Two thumbs up.
Just saw this. Shouldn't this be UTF-16LE?
-hpa
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