-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Original bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1238446
The gpt partition table has 16 bit characters for the name, which I assume are supposed to be UTF-16, but the bloody uefi standard is moot on the subject. Currently parted simply decimates the characters, throwing out the upper 8 bits. This corrupts characters that aren't simple ascii, and at some later point, strlist.c calls mbstrtowcs(), which chokes on the corrupt name causing parted to bail out with "Error during translation". I think that gpt.c needs to translate the UTF-16 to the native multibyte encoding, but I have no idea how to do that. The C standard conversion functions all seem to use the current locale and don't have a way to override it if you know this string is in UTF-16 ( and maybe the current locale is UTF-8 ). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSWEpxAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75YYYH+gOqxQdKmRmPFfSAFbkOnXzf 9SqhaamWXNmqWLCaKHb4COO0S/Wg5Uu5Kzw0chqFbty0+S+Wa13/SM97S25SxUmh q3sVnWbVwbOW5D2NAGhC7jjGwpZ9F4k45xE4DaHntSD1lsoYfq5+D25+4h7GTNqL vliuuFhzUs5dQke/ONFnRfDb202ZC4j+HE7nBRwRm7VsUswsiiPVV8dz5iSQhkD1 /tx3N63A9aViBpFLlgGZu8XSaBHoE+4ZZ/COEGPzga372GDXyccODe0QfmErqWKI 3s0juqk5uOhUWvrWfzaYDtFEG+3AXuIXm8OT/SEQ4uKlqpCBKsFoBQLRGvoEPOE= =0KW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
