Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:09:56 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accents in file names Message-ID: <b79ecaef0902121509gb97363fha6a9da9e309efa3d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9BDCF06E-713F-4627-B8E6-8D15D5F3F120@mac.com> References: <499498A4.4000103@webvolution.net> <9BDCF06E-713F-4627-B8E6-8D15D5F3F120@mac.com>
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2009/2/12 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>: > On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote: >> >> is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented >> words. Like "fil=E9.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file wit= h an >> accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply disappear. > > UFS supports 8-bit characters except for "/" and "\0", but you also need = to > run a terminal with UTF8 support and use a correct font to view such thin= gs. > Perhaps this might give you some insight: > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html > > Note that other file systems have more comprehensive Unicode support: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits > > Perhaps I'm biased, but I've long been of the opinion that the Mac platfo= rm > with HFS+ has very good internationalization support. > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > Yeah, I love the way you're allowed a / in filenames on the Mac. Makes me snigger... How are you copying the files over? On my Mac: [chris@zeus]~% touch bluurgh\303\251 #\303\251 is what comes up when I make an =E9 [chris@zeus]~% ls 5500plugin.tar NetBeansProjects/ hist200.txt Applications/ Pictures/ hist300.txt Desktop/ Public/ hist600.txt Documents/ Rips/ hist900.txt Library/ Sites/ public_html@ Movies/ bluurghe?? xcodeJava/ Music/ drop/ [chris@zeus]~% ls |grep bluu bluurgh=E9 [chris@zeus]~% Look! grep supports that character, but ls doesn't show it properly... so scp works fine... [chris@zeus]~% scp bluurghe\314\201 amnesiac.bayofrum.net:. bluurgh=E9 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00 [chris@zeus]~% ssh amnesiac.bayofrum.net 'ls |grep blu' bluurgh=E9 [chris@zeus]~% ssh amnesiac.bayofrum.net 'rm blu*' Samba seems to do strange things though; copied it over with samba [chris@zeus]~% ssh amnesiac.bayofrum.net 'ls |grep blu' bluurgh=E9* [chris@zeus]~% What's with the *? and after nfs: [chris@zeus]~% sudo mount -t nfs amnesiac.bayofrum.net:/usr/home/chris Applications [chris@zeus]~% cp bluurghe\314\201 Applications/ [chris@zeus]~% ssh amnesiac.bayofrum.net 'ls |grep blu' bluurgh=E9 [chris@zeus]~% What?? Why does it work OK with nfs and scp, but not samba? Really wouldn't bother unless you spend your time exclusively in GUI environments, just seems a real hassle. Chris --=20 R< $&h ! > $- ! $+ $@ $2 < @ $1 .UUCP. > (sendmail.cf)
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