Re: [mtools] New to list

[Marco Franzen]

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to the list and I have a question. I am trying to use
> > mattrib to change attributes on a fat32 partition with Japanese  Windows
> > XP. I am of course running into a unicode issue. Any ideas on how I can
> > get around this? Has anyone put any effort into porting the tools for
> > unicode?

> From: David C Niemi <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:26:19 -0500 (EST)
> 
> The original VFAT support for Mtools was quite simplistic and assumed 
> basic ASCII type character sets (with the high order byte always 0).  This 
> should probably be fixed, as long as it can be done without too much 
> bloat, but I'm not sure who has time to work on it.

See also a similar thread in the archive from about a year ago, which
started with this:

http://www.tux.org/mailman/private/mtools/2003-April/000029.html

(I got one private reply back then, but somehow I lost it immediately
without even seeing who it was from.)

Regards,
Marco
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