freebsd and utf-8 directory names
Rainer Hurling
rhurlin at gwdg.de
Mon Jun 30 06:56:45 UTC 2014
Am 30.06.2014 08:30 (UTC+1) schrieb M&S - Krasznai András:
> Hi
>
> I have been using FreeBSD as desktop since 2003, and living in a mixed (windows-linux) environment I installed FreeBSd along with my usual (Windows 7) work environment, I have a dualboot configured laptop. I use FreeBSD-10 STABLE.
>
> There is a partition formatted for FAT32 where I store documents which I would like to view (and edit) both in windows and freebsd.
>
> The problem is that if the path name contains certain Hungarian characters (e.g o with double accent), then libreoffice in FreeBSD refuses to open them complaining about illegal characters. The directory was created in windows, the document also, and I can handle them perfectly from windows (what is more, libreoffice under a linux can also open those documents). Some accented characters are shown as a question mark in FreeBSD, and some others are as a black rectangle; these latter are causing problems. If a file-nam contains such characters then the file is shown as 0- length in Midnight Commander.
>
> I tried some steps described in the „Localization” part of the FreeBSD Handbook, but things did not improve.
>
> I installed PC-BSD with Hungarian language support, thinking that it would handle the localized directory names correctly but no, it gives the same error message.
>
> This problem is really annoying. How could I solve it?
In my German environment I also use FAT32 formatted drives, mounted like:
/dev/adaXsX /XXX msdosfs rw,large,-Lde_DE.UTF-8 0 0
This should also work for Hungarian?
HTH,
Rainer Hurling
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