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translating LFNs into short 8.3 form (Miscellaneous)

posted by roytam, 12.01.2011, 09:11

> I found that some Windows programs (mostly port from *nix) are case sensitive on filenames.

It depends. For DBCS (Big5, Shift-JIS, GBK, etc.) the lower byte may consist of A-Z(uppercase) and a-z(lowercase). DBCS-aware applications shouldn't change the case of filename to kernel.

For example, 0xA4 0x50(ñP) in Big5 is mapped to U+5315, 0xA4 0x70(ñp) is mapped to U+5C0F. Some Programs, say Quick View Pro, UPPERCASE the filename, which leads to "File not found" error in result.

Complete thread:

• exFAT - Drewfus, 10.11.2010, 13:49 (Miscellaneous)
  • exFAT == less than ideal - Rugxulo, 10.11.2010, 14:12
    • exFAT - Laaca, 10.11.2010, 14:44
      • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - Arjay, 13.11.2010, 21:32
        • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - ecm, 13.11.2010, 21:46
          • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - Drewfus, 14.11.2010, 22:30
          • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - RayeR, 15.11.2010, 02:37
          • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - Laaca, 11.01.2011, 00:20
            • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - ecm, 11.01.2011, 16:09
              • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - bretjohn, 11.01.2011, 19:40
                • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - Laaca, 11.01.2011, 21:58
                  • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - ecm, 11.01.2011, 23:06
            • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - RayeR, 12.01.2011, 02:29
              • translating LFNs into short 8.3 form - roytam, 12.01.2011, 09:11