15 | | TODO: describe the mkisofs iconv patch, its usefulness and reverse dependencies. |
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| 17 | When creating an ISO image with Joliet extensions (for long file names on MS Windows), it is necessary to specify the correct input filename character set with the -input-charset (or, equivalently, -jcharset) option. The character set name passed after this switch must match the output of "locale charmap". A mismatch results in completely wrong characters non-ASCII in the filenames under MS Windows. |
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| 19 | Problem 1: unpatched mkisofs accepts only character sets listed in the "mkisofs -input-charset help" output, and UTF-8 is not in the list. |
| 20 | Problem 2: some GUI frontends don't know that this option has to be passed, and don't allow a user to add it at all. |