[uae] Re: Encoding issue when mounting unix partition
- From: "Thore Sittly" <TSittly@xxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:49:34 +0100
Hello
Amiga codepage is (coincidental?) same as ISO-8859-1, it would not be
possible to use several different encodings at the samt time, except for
those with a byte order marker (BOM) such as unicode stuff (UTF-8,
UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE). So you can e.g. differ between "ö" and "ö".
ö is a german character and ö is the UTF-8 code for it.
But nevertheless, ISO-8859-1 (or Amiga standard encoding) is quite good to
represent most common european characters with lowest count of bytes.
Regardless of this encoding stuff, even if you could patch AmigaOS to
handle it, you will still have Problems in filenames like " ", "AUX",
etc...
Thore
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:28:13 +0200
> Von: Andrew 'Truck' Holland <truck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> An: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: [uae] Re: Encoding issue when mounting unix partition
>
> On Fr, 22 Jan 2010, Mahendra Tallur wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply, Thore !
> >
> > I had the feeling winuae used some hidden files to work-around this
> > problem ?
>
> Not to my knowledge, as Windows still won't know about Amiga's encoding.
>
> >
> > Anyway, that's understandable. Hmm, in that specific case though, the
> > file that couldn't be installed just had a "ç" character, which is not
> > incompatible with the filesystem, actually... Nautilus did display the
> > file "Français" but stated "Bad encoding".
>
> Yes, it's "bad" - it's Amiga encoding, not UTF8 or Latin-1 or Latin-9 or
> shift-JIS (: I don't know WHY Amiga encoding isn't set up as an encoding
> for various things, it really should be...
>
> I can imagine now that we have Morphos Python we'll need it for the
> Python
> encodings module anyway.
>
> I wonder if anyone knows which manual of the Amiga documentation would
> list
> the actual Amiga encodings - and if it changed depending on the locale.
>
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