Debugging the contents of a disc?

[gingerbeardman]

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:
https://archive.org/details/nikkei-mac-cd-vol-2

This ISO produces a invalid text file:
https://archive.org/details/nikkei-mac-cd-rom-1994-2-17

The two text files are in a zip at this URL
https://file.io/GIDtOuXawZdM

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

Any thoughts appreciated!

matt

[gingerbeardman]

Solved in #26