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Re: mkisofs and hebrew filenames
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: mkisofs and hebrew filenames
- From: Gavrie Philipson <gavrie(at-nospam)netmor.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:25:55 +0300
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Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:47:58PM +0300, Gavrie Philipson wrote:
> > Hi IGLUers,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone here has succeeded in burning CD-Rs with
> > Hebrew filenames on them, that are readable on that other OS.
> > Normally, mkisofs (with the -J option to create Joliet directories)
> > barfs on Hebrew filenames. When adding the option '-jcharset cp862', the
> > Windows Hebrew filenames are recognized OK, but they are reversed.
> > This means it's not a charset problem, but probably a bidi problem. I
> > suspect that the Joliet filenames somehow aren't processed by the
> > Windows Bidi algorithm in the same way as 'regular' filenames.
> > Does anyone have experience with this? Is hacking mkisofs to use a bidi
> > algorithm for the filenames the correct way to solve this?
>
> Did you try 'iso8859-8' ? (I'd be suprised to see it work if the
> previous solution didn't, since both should just convert the thing into
> Unicode -- and the source shows no differences as well).
Ilya,
I didn't try, but I will. However, the filenames seems to be in CP862
format (Aleph=128) and not ISO8859-8 (Aleph=224). Is this a Windows
thingie?
> Another possible thing might be that you'll need to include a
> zero-width Unicode symbol which means "start bidi algorythm".
> POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING (hexadecimal 202C) should apparently do it.
> If that's indeed the solution, then I'd hope you'd choose the "right"
> way to patch mkisofs rather than including a bidi algorythm :)
Hmm...if that works, it certainly is much better.
I'll do some experiments. I'll tell you if I have answers.
Thanks,
Gavrie.
--
Gavrie Philipson
Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.
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