Re: Progress Update

Tyler Dauwalder <tyler-cyCl/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.storage
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > > > Nice!
> > > > Just a short question, now that I you've done all the hard work:
> > > > will
> > > > the ISO-9660 fs module recognize the Joliet volume name as 
> > > > well=3F
> > > > :-)
> > Not currently. It's not difficult to find the Joliet volume name, 
> > but
> > it has to be converted from Unicode to something useful. Is there a
> > handy way to do that in the kernel, yet=3F If not, do you suppose 
> > that
> > might be something worth adding=3F I have to admit that non-ASCII
> > encodings are a bit foreign to me, being a pampered English-only
> > speaker.
> 
> Joliet uses unicode, while RockRidge/BeOS uses UTF-8 encoding.
> From the upcoming locale kit (for use with OpenTracker first):
[snip]
> This will do the trick; if you'd find the time, it would be a very 
> nice
> advantage over the original DS-Add-on. But of course, I could also do
> it, if you don't want to :-)

No, I'd be happy to tackle it. Thanks for the handy function. :-)

-Tyler
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.