From 70e9532bb54917c37cbb6eab33d8662fd87f496c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Lucas Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:03:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The "Using CDs" section also didn't mention the annoyances of mounting & reading Joliet disks. Fixed, with text & info taken from FAQ. --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml index 1dfa3b3d98..60e5d48426 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml @@ -939,6 +939,17 @@ scsibus1: to: &prompt.root; mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt + + You can generally use data CDROMs from any vendor in this + way. Disks with certain ISO 9660 extensions might behave + oddly, however. For example, Joliet disks store all filenames + in two-byte Unicode characters. The FreeBSD kernel does not + speak Unicode (yet!), so non-English characters show up as + question marks. (If you are running FreeBSD 4.3 or later, the + CD9660 driver includes hooks to load an appropriate Unicode + conversion table on the fly. Modules for some of the common + encodings are available via the + sysutils/cd9660_unicode port.)