File names on burned CD's

Hello,
I burned a hybrid CD (default behaviour), from finder and hdiutil makehybrid, readable on mac (HFS+), windows (ISO 9660/Joliet), and linux (ISO 9660/Rock Ridge). The resulting file names differed on each platform:
HFS+: Everything as expected.
Joliet: Comma disappeared, why? The spec mentions only '*', '/', ':', ';', '?', and '\', as illegal.
RR: Everything in lower case, length cut to 30 (even ISO 9660 allows 31), non-ascii (national) characters missing.
Is there any documentation explaining these restrictions?
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Sorry, risto. I should have been more precise. Though I did goof by including Windows in my note above. In plain ol' DOS, that list of characters is true, along with a couple I missed. But the Windows Joliet file system allows more of the old characters. Here's a now complete and proper list.
These are all characters reserved by the system in DOS.
? [ ] / \ = + : ; " , * |
In the Windows Joliet file system, these characters are not allowed.
? / \ : " * |
So the disk that dropped the commas must have been burned by straight DOS rules. Whereas the disk burned from Linux used Joliet rules.

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