Hello everyone, I am trying to write an implementation for UEFI
strings in Rust and just wanted clarification about some things.
Are UEFI Strings UTF-16 encoded? I have looked at some previous Rust
implementations for this and it seems UEFI does not support the whole
UTF-16 but rather only UCS-2
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Hi Ayush,
In the latest UEFI 2.9 spec, it's specified under 2.3.1 that CHAR8
strings/characters are (usually) ASCII, and CHAR16 strings/characters are
(usually) UCS-2 (*not* UTF-16).
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 7:02 AM Ayush Singh wrote:
> Hello everyone, I am trying to write an implementation for U
Thanks, Pedro,
However, according to the specs, it is possible to construct ASCII
Strings as well. So when would ASCII Strings be used over normal UCS-2
Strings?
Ayush Singh
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:13 PM Pedro Falcato wrote:
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> Hi Ayush,
>
> In the latest UEFI 2.9 spec, it's specified under 2
I'd say that it depends. But 98% of the strings you'll find in UEFI
(including APIs) are UCS-2 CHAR16 strings.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 9:19 AM Ayush Singh wrote:
> Thanks, Pedro,
>
> However, according to the specs, it is possible to construct ASCII
> Strings as well. So when would ASCII Strings
Ok, Thanks for all the help.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 3:28 PM Pedro Falcato wrote:
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> I'd say that it depends. But 98% of the strings you'll find in UEFI
> (including APIs) are UCS-2 CHAR16 strings.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 9:19 AM Ayush Singh wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Pedro,
>>
>> However, accordi
Just for clarification, UCS2 and not UTF-16 means there are no
surrogate pairs right?
Ayush Singh
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 5:15 PM Ayush Singh via groups.io
wrote:
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> Ok, Thanks for all the help.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 3:28 PM Pedro Falcato wrote:
> >
> > I'd say that it depends. But 98% of
