From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 21:13:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D156106566B for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:13:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dleal@webvolution.net) Received: from front2.netvisao.pt (front2.netvisao.pt [213.228.128.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C47DE8FC0C for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:13:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dleal@webvolution.net) Received: (qmail 2044 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2009 21:13:20 -0000 Received: from av-front5.netvisao.pt (213.228.128.157) by front2.netvisao.pt with SMTP; 13 Feb 2009 21:13:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 30863 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2009 21:13:17 -0000 Received: from ar-217-129-86-43.netvisao.pt (HELO [192.168.1.200]) (dleal@[217.129.86.43]) (envelope-sender ) by av-front5.netvisao.pt (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Feb 2009 21:13:17 -0000 Message-ID: <4995E2C4.8020102@webvolution.net> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:14:44 +0000 From: Daniel Leal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20090102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <499498A4.4000103@webvolution.net> <9BDCF06E-713F-4627-B8E6-8D15D5F3F120@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <9BDCF06E-713F-4627-B8E6-8D15D5F3F120@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: IMSS-7.0.0.3216-5.5.0.1026-16462.002 X-TM-AS-Result: No--5.188-5.0-31-1 X-imss-scan-details: No--5.188-5.0-31-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accents in file names X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:13:20 -0000 Ok, Thanks a lot... I will read carefully these articles... bye. daniel Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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 "filé.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file >> with 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 things. 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 > platform with HFS+ has very good internationalization support. > > Regards,