Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:13:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysutils/cd9660_unicode Message-ID: <20060823221321.GC1769@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060821170508.GA98755@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200608211810.38758.antik@bsd.ee> <20060821170508.GA98755@abigail.blackend.org>
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On 2006-08-21 19:05, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:10:38PM +0300, Andrei Kolu wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html > > > > "Disks with certain ISO 9660 extensions might behave oddly, however. > > For example, Joliet disks store all filenames in two-byte Unicode > > characters. The FreeBSD kernel does not speak Unicode (yet!), so > > non-English characters show up as question marks. (The FreeBSD > > CD9660 driver includes hooks to load an appropriate Unicode > > conversion table on the fly. Modules for some of the common > > encodings are available via the sysutils/cd9660_unicode port.)" > > > > # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/cd9660_unicode > > # make install > > ===> cd9660_unicode-1.0 is obsolete. See mount_cd9660(8). > > *** Error code 1 > > What about the following diff mentioning the -C option for particular > cases: > > %%% > Index: disks/chapter.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.264 > diff -u -r1.264 chapter.sgml > --- disks/chapter.sgml 21 Aug 2006 07:58:16 -0000 1.264 > +++ disks/chapter.sgml 21 Aug 2006 17:01:12 -0000 > @@ -1200,12 +1200,12 @@ > way. Disks with certain ISO 9660 extensions might behave > oddly, however. For example, Joliet disks store all filenames > in two-byte Unicode characters. The FreeBSD kernel does not > - speak Unicode (yet!), so non-English characters show up as > - question marks. (The FreeBSD > - CD9660 driver includes hooks to load an appropriate Unicode > - conversion table on the fly. Modules for some of the common > - encodings are available via the > - <filename role="package">sysutils/cd9660_unicode</filename> port.)</para> > + speak Unicode, but the &os; CD9660 driver is able to convert > + Unicode characters on the fly. If some non-English characters > + show up as question marks you will need to specify the local > + charset you use with the <option>-C</option> option. For more > + information, consult the &man.mount.cd9660.8; manual > + page.</para> > > <para>Occasionally, you might get <errorname>Device not > configured</errorname> when trying to mount a CDROM. This > %%% FWIW, this looks fine to me. It's better, at least, than having documentation that is out of date with the current state of things :)
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