Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:00:39 +1100 From: Christopher Vance <christopher@nu.org> To: David Yu <chiahsing@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS unicode converting problem Message-ID: <20050117020039.GB630@nu.org> In-Reply-To: <ad2ada4b05011613445601befe@mail.gmail.com> References: <ad2ada4b05011613445601befe@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:44:04PM -0800, David Yu wrote: >Hi, it seems that NTFS in FreeBSD uses a 16-bit long wchar to store >filename. When I wanted to convert some Chinese filename into UTF-8, >the conversion was failed because a single Chinese character needs 3 >bytes in UTF-8. Is anyone already working on this problem? If not, I >would like to do something about it. Any suggestions? >From memory, old Windows used UCS-2, while newer Windows uses UTF-16. Was the bad character in plane 0 or higher? -- Christopher Vance
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