misc/133174: msdosfs must support utf-encoded international characters in filr names

Yuri yuri at tsoft.com
Sat Mar 28 23:20:02 PDT 2009


>Number:         133174
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       msdosfs must support utf-encoded international characters in filr names
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 29 06:20:01 UTC 2009
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>Originator:     Yuri
>Release:        7.1
>Organization:
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>Environment:
>Description:
I am not able to read USB disk with FAT that has Chinese characters in the file names.

This URL has patches that claim to fix this issue for FAT and NTFS:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-fs/2009/2/13/4964134

It's important to support international characters in FAT since lack of support makes FreeBSD fail to read such disks.

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