Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:05:17 -0500 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc Message-ID: <CAD2Ti2_biQ%2BpOjh9AT2tC-=RBaaHf22U%2BaMDR%2B9vRg4bXduGbQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121105022745.adc3e4c2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAD2Ti29qi_kXRYsvPuv873WSrX=x2Gh6cq28BcwsYd5s-t9eog@mail.gmail.com> <20121105022745.adc3e4c2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>> As an aside, why does FreeBSD seem to default to the above locale >> instead of say, en_US.UTF-8 ? > > FreeBSD's file system does not default to any locale, as far as I > know. The system is "agnostic" to what the characters in the file > name mean or what symbol they should represent. Sure the fs is just binary, then viewed and written through the mask of the selected langauge layer I think. I think in my case some data was said to be in a particular encoding when in fact it may have been in another, and then pushed down to disk by the app through that wrong mask. > There isn't much you can do on file system level except renaming > the files: write a program that reads the file names according > to the preferred interpretation and write new names for them, I'll read more on language to see if I can reverse that and recover them or just replace with X's. I was looking mostly for a tool that would show me what a filename or data looks like in hex, octal, and different selected encodings. Doing it by hand is slow. I'll check ports again.
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