utf8

Manolis Kiagias sonicy at otenet.gr
Tue Apr 8 05:49:42 UTC 2008


alexus wrote:
> how do I make my FreeBSD-7 to understand UTF-8? I have files that i
> need to transfer, but when i do it converts to ????????? instead of
> name
>
>   
The console will not show UTF-8 filenames, though they are stored normally.
If you use X, then doing something along the line of export 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 before startx will allow you to see the filenames 
normally from an X terminal.


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