[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/5] lib: add some utf16 handling helpers

Rob Clark
2017-09-11T14:34:19Z

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
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> On 09.09.17 12:47, Rob Clark wrote:
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>> We'll eventually want these in a few places in efi_loader, and also
>> vsprintf.
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>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
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> UEFI wants UCS-2 (the 16 bit only Windows thing), not UTF16 (the
> may-also-be-32bit-wide thing).
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> So I'm not sure how far away this code is from the ultimate truth of what we
> need for UEFI compatibility. Do you have any gut feeling?
>

+ leif & peter

I'm not entirely sure. Grub seems to treat it as UTF-16, and from a
30sec look at wikipedia, it seems like UCS-2 is a subset of UTF-16.
But I won't claim to be a unicode expert.

BR,
-R