Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 168038
isoinfo doesn't support UTF-8
Last modified: 2014-02-02 17:13:12 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en] Description of problem: Though mkisofs is patched to support (and use by default) UTF-8 filenames, isoinfo doesn't support it. Hence it is not able to correctly report the accented letters in the Joliet filenames, and as a consequence, accented letters also don't show up correctly inside mc-4.6.1 if using its iso9660 extfs plugin (e.g. pressing Enter on an iso file). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cdrtools-2.01.1-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Create a directory tree containing some accented filenames (using UTF-8 encoding) and create a iso image from it using the -J -jutf-8 options of mkisofs. Then run "isoinfo -f -i isofile" on the image file. Additional info:
Created attachment 131853 [details] isoinfo UTF-8 support The attached patch adds UTF-8 support to isoinfo. (This becomes the default, but can be also chosen by "-j utf-8" or "-j default"). I didn't do proper iconv support, neither used features from the iconv patch. That one seemed to be a little bit overkill to me (I guess no-one should need a charset nowadays that is neither UTF-8 nor supported by mainstream isoinfo). And furthermore that iconv patch does reverse converting (whatever to UCS-2, while here we'd need UCS-2 to whatever). So this approach would have required much more work and most likely altering the iconv patch. Hence I chose to create a quick and dirty hard-coded UCS-2 => UTF-8 conversion which hopefully covers 99.9% percent of the cases where isoinfo was buggy so far.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Dear "Bug Zapper" or whoever reads this, I'm pretty sure the easiest way to get rid of Bugzilla entries is to wait two and a half years without any comment, and then just claim it's most likely obsolete. But please think for a moment, which one is more important for you: to get rid of Bugzilla entries, or to actually get the bugs fixed? If you need any kind of clarification or really _more_ information to help fix the bug, I'm happy to provide them. However, apparently so far you've done absolutely nothing with this bug (probably haven't even read it), but you're asking me to perform again the very same steps that I've done a long ago -- I think it's just pretty unfair. I don't have current Fedora and don't plan to investigate the effort and time to do something for you that I've already done once, especially knowing that in the mean time there's nothing you have done with it. This doesn't mean the bug is gone. Unless someone has explicitly done something that fixed this bug, it is still there. Please don't close the bug, unless _you_ have verified that it's already resolved. Thanks for your understanding and best wishes!
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The original isoinfo has proper UTF-8 and iconv support. Just use recent original software from: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
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As mentioned before, the original software does not have the problem mentioned in this bug report. The original software did introduce working UTF-8 support 34 months ago. If RedHat did publish the original software instead of the questionalble fork, many users would be happy. The original cdrtools software fixes all "cdrkit" related problems in the RedHat bugtracking system that are not caused by bad media or by a Linux kernel bug. See cdrecord.berlios.de
Sigh... Great to see that none of the Red Hat folks bothered to do anything with this bugzilla entry in the last 45 months (3.75 years)... Not even a single "verified" or "tried but could not reproduce" or "checked: already fixed in mainline" or "will look at it next month". Nothing. Absolutely nothing. (Unless Ms. Bug Zapper turns out to be a human.) I swear, it's getting even worse than Debian. Nevermind... (Jörg: just in case of doubt: this comment was not addressed to you. Thanks for the mainstream solution.)
resetting ownership of bug
assigning to correct component
Did you try isoinfo -R -l -i foo.iso or isoinfo -J -l -i foo.iso? Maybe it will help read utf-8.
As mentioned before, the illegal fork that is distributed by redhat does not support UTF-8. If you like to get working UTF-8 support, you need to upgrade to the original software at: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ http://cdrecord.berlios.de
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Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
This EOL state change does not affect the bug as long as Redhat uses an EOL'd fork instead of using the original software "cdrtools". The problem named in this bug report does not exist in the original software, it will continue to exist in the fork.....