Bug#749438: gparted stuck at "searching /dev/sdc partitions"
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:52:11PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> Ok, I have been able to reproduce this and diagnose the problem. Your "3 1/2 inch floppy link" file contains the "1/2" character, which in code page 437 ( the original IBM PC character set ) is 0xBD. In UTF-8, this is an incomplete multi byte sequence. Dosfsck therefore, is emitting invalid UTF-8 character sequences by blindly spitting out the characters as they appear on disk. It should be translating them to the current system character set ( normally UTF-8 ) using the iconv library, and assuming the characters on disk are CP-437 unless otherwise directed. I am therefore cloning this bug and assigning it to dosfstools.
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> In addition, when using iconv to convert this character to valid UTF-8, it maps it to U+255C instead of U+00BD, so I'm cloning the bug there as well.
That is wrong. 0xBD in CP437 or CP850 page code is '╜' which corresponds
to character U+255C as iconv says.
0xBD is the '½' character (U+00BD) in the CP1252 page code usually used
by Windows.
I therefore think this bug is invalid, please close it if you agree.
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