Re: sysutils/cd9660_unicode

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:10:38PM +0300, Andrei Kolu wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
> 
>  "Disks with certain ISO 9660 extensions might behave oddly, however. For 
> example, Joliet disks store all filenames in two-byte Unicode characters. The 
> FreeBSD kernel does not speak Unicode (yet!), so non-English characters show 
> up as question marks. (The FreeBSD CD9660 driver includes hooks to load an 
> appropriate Unicode conversion table on the fly. Modules for some of the 
> common encodings are available via the sysutils/cd9660_unicode port.)"
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/cd9660_unicode
> # make install
> ===>  cd9660_unicode-1.0 is obsolete. See mount_cd9660(8).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/cd9660_unicode.
> 
> Looks like documentation is out of date.
>

Hello,

What about the following diff mentioning the -C option for particular
cases:

Index: disks/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.264
diff -u -r1.264 chapter.sgml

--- disks/chapter.sgml	21 Aug 2006 07:58:16 -0000	1.264
+++ disks/chapter.sgml	21 Aug 2006 17:01:12 -0000
@@ -1200,12 +1200,12 @@
 	way.  Disks with certain ISO 9660 extensions might behave
 	oddly, however.  For example, Joliet disks store all filenames
 	in two-byte Unicode characters.  The FreeBSD kernel does not
-	speak Unicode (yet!), so non-English characters show up as
-	question marks.  (The FreeBSD
-	CD9660 driver includes hooks to load an appropriate Unicode
-	conversion table on the fly.  Modules for some of the common
-	encodings are available via the
-	<filename role="package">sysutils/cd9660_unicode</filename> port.)</para>
+	speak Unicode, but the &os; CD9660 driver is able to convert
+	Unicode characters on the fly.  If some non-English characters
+	show up as question marks you will need to specify the local
+	charset you use with the <option>-C</option> option.  For more
+	information, consult the &man.mount.cd9660.8; manual
+	page.</para>
 
       <para>Occasionally, you might get <errorname>Device not
 	configured</errorname> when trying to mount a CDROM.  This

-- 
Marc
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