Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Cdrtools

Timestamp:

02/17/2006 05:46:12 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

alexander@…

Comment:

described mkisofs iconv patch

Cdrtools

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-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.
+When creating an ISO image with Joliet extensions (for long file names on MS Windows) using unpatched mkisofs, it is necessary to specify the input filename character set with the -input-charset (or, equivalently, -jcharset) option, unless it is ISO-8859-1 (the default). The character set name passed after this switch must match the output of "locale charmap". A mismatch results in completely wrong non-ASCII characters in the filenames under MS Windows.
 
 Problem 1: unpatched mkisofs accepts only character sets listed in the "mkisofs -input-charset help" output, and UTF-8 is not in the list.
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 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.
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+Both problems can be solved with [http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/attachment/wiki/Cdrtools/cdrtools-2.01-mkisofs_iconv-10.patch?format=raw this patch]. It does the following:
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+ * Makes mkisofs accept any character set supported by iconv as the input character set
+ * Changes the default input character set to the character set implied by the current locale
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+The net effect is that creation of ISO images with Joliet extensions becomes possible in any locale, and the -input-charset switch becomes needed only in very exceptional situations.
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+IMPORTANT: never report problems with charset set support directly to Joerg Schilling!
 
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