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

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:20:23PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 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.

The UEFI spec is for UCS-2, and everything in GPT is stored in LE so
that's what I used. Are you seeing a problem with the iconv_open call on
some distributions?

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