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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Most tools will probably simply pass them on.  Replacing them with U+FFFD would corrupt existing data.

On March 23, 2015 7:10:34 PM PDT, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>On 03/23/2015 04:57 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
>> If we crash on unexpected input then that's a problem that needs
>> fixing. But if they just show up as invalid character replacements
>> then that's a problem with whatever created it, not parted.
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>Technically, yes, but if most other major partitioning tools accept
>such characters and write them to disk using the multi word encodings,
>and can read them back, then I'd be in favor of following suit in the
>name of improved functionality and interoperability.  I just don't
>think we should start doing that first, and then the other tools
>rightly reject the encodings as invalid.
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