[debbugs-tracker] bug#15591: closed (gpt mishandles non ascii partition names)

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regarding gpt mishandles non ascii partition names
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> Original bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1238446
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> The gpt partition table has 16 bit characters for the name, which I
> assume are supposed to be UTF-16, but the bloody uefi standard is moot
> on the subject.  Currently parted simply decimates the characters,
> throwing out the upper 8 bits.  This corrupts characters that aren't
> simple ascii, and at some later point, strlist.c calls mbstrtowcs(),
> which chokes on the corrupt name causing parted to bail out with
> "Error during translation".
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> I think that gpt.c needs to translate the UTF-16 to the native
> multibyte encoding, but I have no idea how to do that.  The C standard
> conversion functions all seem to use the current locale and don't have
> a way to override it if you know this string is in UTF-16 ( and maybe
> the current locale is UTF-8 ).
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> Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:45:06 -0800
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> Perfect.  Thanks!  Marking this "done" in the bug-tracker.
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