Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:51:42 +0200 | From | "Stephen R. van den Berg" <> | Subject | Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 |
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Steffen Grunewald wrote: >"Stephen R. van den Berg writes" >|> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but as far as I know, NTFS allows for >|> completely arbitrary equivalence tables (in Unicode).
>So does this mean that the interpretation of a removable disk's NTFS >depends on the host it is mounted to ?!?!? >Or will there be a "TRANS.TBL" like file somewhere in the NTFS itself >(if so, how is it named if every character could be re-defined ?)
The "TRANS.TBL" is embedded in the filesystem-metadata (superblock, if you will) somewhere, if I recall correctly. It needs to be read at mount time. -- Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
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