hebrew letters in non-unicode vfat

hebrew letters in non-unicode vfat

Diego Iastrubni elcuco at kde.org
Sat Jun 19 22:36:29 IDT 2010


Shachar,

On שבת 19 יוני 2010 00:08:26 Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> There is no such thing "non-unicode vfat". FAT file systems comes in two
> flavors. One is the classic, pre-Windows 95, version, which only
> supported ASCII (no Hebrew at all). The other is the LFN extension to
> FAT, which is encoded in UTF-16 (i.e. - unicode). In other words, if the
> DoK has Hebrew names, they are in Unicode.
I am pretty sure I used to write in Hebrew filenames under DOS and Win3.11 (and 
saw "reversed Hebrew" in my app... I had to reverse it...). When I say "pretty 
sure", I  tell you I wrote code myself.

Can you prove me wrong? What is missing here ? (except me being senile, that 
might be true)



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