[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit - tone it down

[Joerg Schilling]

"Armando M. Baratti" <ambaratti.listas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Strange, I have had the opposite experience.
> Trying to burn some CDs with cdrkit (on CentOS) give some problem with 
> not being able to generate Joliet system and I have had trouble with 
> utf-8 too.
>
> First I thought I was making some stupid mistake, but changing to 
> cdrtools (from sourceforge repository) fixed that.
>
> Well, it was in another distro, but by what I've read in this thread it 
> seems to make sense now.

There is nothing strange and this does not depend on the distro you are using. 
 
The fork does not handle UTF-8 correctly. 
 
BTW: the whole dispute with Debian started with an attempt from a Debian  
paketizer to make me integrate a non-working UTF-8 patch into mkisofs in May  
2004. This patch was full of bugs and even if it did have no bugs, it would  
only handle 50% of the cases that need support for UTF-8. 
 
This broken patch is still in the fork, but in Summer 2006 I did implement  
working and complete UTF-8 support for mkisofs. 

There is however no cdrtools at Sourceforge, cdrtools is at Berlios ;-)

Jörg

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