From 651a9ee42a76e4277129af614fbabf0797657f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Borowski Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:47:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt: fix a remark that implies UCS2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit All non-historic operating systems support the full range of Unicode here, thus you can make filenames for example in Gothic (𐌼𐌴𐍉𐍅), the other Gothic (𝓂ℯℴ𝓌) or the third Gothic (𝗆𝖾𝗈𝗐), or declare something as 💩. Characters above U+FFFF are encoded on four bytes. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index cf51360e3a9f..91031298beb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -344,4 +344,4 @@ the following: characters in the final slot are set to Unicode 0xFFFF. Finally, note that the extended name is stored in Unicode. Each Unicode -character takes two bytes. +character takes either two or four bytes, UTF-16LE encoded. -- 2.11.0