Re: [Gptfdisk-general] GPTPart::GetDescription broken in 1.0.7 on Big Endian systems

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 6/8/21 10:54 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi Rod,
> 
>> There aren't a lot of changes from 1.0.7 to the current
>> state, but given that this is kind of important for big-endian systems,
>> I'll release this change as 1.0.8 soon -- but I'll give it a day or two
>> in case something else crops up.
> 
> Agreed, that little wait sounds wise.
> I've indirectly also pulled IBM into the boat since they are kind of
> the "master of big-endian things".
> Maybe (but no promise) they have opinions/hints on this as well.

I've been doing some searching to find a way to identify UCS-2 with
swapped bytes, so that the program could fix this automatically when
reading corrupted partition tables. (GPT technically uses UCS-2, not
UTF-16, although the GPT fdisk code has a lot of references to UTF-16
because at one time I relied on an external UTF-16 library.) So far no luck.

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