hebrew letters in non-unicode vfat

[Shachar Shemesh]

Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> 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)
>
>   
I may have mis-spoke. Not even all ASCII was supported. There was no 
support for lower case file names, for example. All file names without 
LFS were upper case. When programs not written by you (say, the 
"Einstein" word processor) wanted to write Hebrew, they did all sorts of 
crazy mappings on the file name to map it to something that FAT could save.

As for what you did - I have no idea what that is, so I cannot comment. 
Did you ever run scandisk on your drives? Did it pass?

As for references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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