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 <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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. -- 2.15.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
