Hi Unicoders,
Recently I've had the dubious pleasure of delving into the details of
the VFAT file system. For long file names, I thought it used UCS-2,
but in looking at the data with a disk editor, it appears to be
byte-swapping (little endian). I thought that UCS-2 was by definition
big endian, thus I've got the following questions:
1. Could it be using UTF-16LE? I tried creating an entry with a
surrogate pair, but the name was displayed with two black boxes on a
Windows 2000-based computer, so I assumed that surrogates were not
supported.
2. Is little-endian UCS-2 a valid encoding that I just don't know about?
3. And finally, why are file names case-insensitive for characters in
the U-0000 to U-00FF range, but not for any other characters? OK,
maybe I can guess at the answer to that one...
Thanks,
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
