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

[Phillip Susi]

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On 3/24/2015 12:41 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Most tools will probably simply pass them on.  Replacing them with
> U+FFFD would corrupt existing data.

There is no such thing as "pass them on".  They must be interpreted
somehow and typically converted to UTF-8.  And the whole idea is that
any data written to the partition table that contains surrogates *is*
corrupt.

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