[uae] Re: Encoding issue when mounting unix partition
- From: Andrew 'Truck' Holland <truck@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:13:09 +0200
On Fr, 22 Jan 2010, Toni Wilen wrote:
> Amiga "encoding" is ISO-8859-1 (which was called ECMA-94 Latin 1 at that
> time, Commodore did at least one not so bad choice at that time, or
> perhaps charset came from tripos..) Charset is described in ROM kernel
> manual, keymap.library chapter. There are no other encodings.
Bizzarre - that means that it SHOULD work with 'normal' ... well, you know,
.fi settings for ext2/3 - Ok, that needs investigated.
But yeah, that makes sense why it wouldn't work with samba/cifs, ntfs,
etc. But not a filesystem that's supposed to be using latin-1.
> All UAE versions even before WinUAE existed have used separate (hidden
> to AmigaOS) file per directory to store illegal filenames. (UAEFSDB)
> WinUAE versions for 2 years or so have stored that data to alternate
> NTFS stream. (and "surprisingly" AmigaOS installation works just fine on
> NTFS volume)
>
> NOTE: for example AUX isn't illegal for NTFS (NTFS does not care about
> charsets), filename restrictions/checks are in Win32 API.
>
> Anyway, filesystem Amiga encoding conversion to/from OS native charset
> is handled in recent WinUAE versions. Previously it used OS locale
> settings which may not match ISO-8859-1 very well.
And I'll bet it's in the puae stuff as well. I'll test that.
> (I still haven't left this list. Perhaps I should have, perhaps not..)
Naw, you know more than we do (: And you have the sense to speak up when
something needs to be clarified.
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