Hi,

I work with a lot of old Japanese HFS Standard CD-ROMs (as ISO format).

I use hfsutils (hls -1aR > file.txt) to catalogue their contents.

I've come to notice that some discs produce a directory listing that is valid Japanese (Mac OS) encoding (aka x-mac-japanese), whilst others do not and result in an unidentifiable encoding and I can't figure out why. Maybe it's a bug in hfsutils?

This ISO produces a valid text file:

This ISO produces a *invalid* text file:

The two text files are in a zip at this URL

ps: I use macOS TextEdit or CotEditor to open the resulting text files.

Any thoughts appreciated!

matt