On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:03:04 -0500
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, stan via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> said:
> The code page was a legitimate issue, but only part of the
issue.
> When I tried utf-8 for the /boot/efi partition booting failed. There
> must be some hardcoded linking of vfat and ISO8859 somewhere. I
> don't think there is a technical reason precluding the use of utf-8
> with vfat.
The UEFI standard defines its own filesystem format that is a fixed
subset of FAT32. Only ASCII and UCS-2 character encodings are
officially supported for long filename support. Windows FAT32
includes UTF-16 for LFN, but that's not supported in UEFI (UTF-8 is
not even mentioned).
Thanks, that clears things up.