Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:15:16 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?TWloYWkgRG9uyJt1?= <mihai.dontu@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: accents in file names Message-ID: <b79ecaef0902170215o2cde7e2etc0c2a7c8a4b897b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902162205.17644.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> References: <499498A4.4000103@webvolution.net> <20090212235015.U97916@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <E2340929-392C-48C0-B8B6-F5527C5A249D@mac.com> <200902162205.17644.mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
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2009/2/16 Mihai Don=C8=9Bu <mihai.dontu@gmail.com>: > On Friday 13 February 2009, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> 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 things. >> > >> > why? i use ISO-8859-2 >> >> You've answered "why" when you state that you set up a locale which >> supports ISO Latin-X charset. If you are running in the default C/ >> POSIX locale, using the US-ASCII character set and a font that only >> knows about 7-bit ASCII glyphs, then you won't get accented characters. >> >> > UFS doesn't deal with encoding at all, just store what you give >> >> That's right, which means you need to use filenames encoded in UTF8 >> rather than in arbitrary Unicode. > > UTF-8 is what we prefer these days, but the filesystem can handle anythin= g > that is ASCII compatible (like you said: Shift_JIS, EUC-JP etc.). > > Now, I assume Daniel was copying "fil=C3=A9.txt" from a non-UFS (Windows = box, > FAT32, NTFS etc) filesystem to UFS, because this is the only case I can t= hink > of and in which such a problem might appear. > I assume this is why scp and nfs worked on my example above, but samba didn= 't? --=20 R< $&h ! > $- ! $+ $@ $2 < @ $1 .UUCP. > (sendmail.cf)
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