accents in file names

[Daniel Leal]

Yes, that's right. I copied the files from win4bsd system.


Mihai Donțu wrote:
> 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 anything 
> that is ASCII compatible (like you said: Shift_JIS, EUC-JP etc.).
>
> Now, I assume Daniel was copying "filé.txt" from a non-UFS (Windows box, 
> FAT32, NTFS etc) filesystem to UFS, because this is the only case I can think 
> of and in which such a problem might appear.
>
>   
>> People in Asia tend to want UTF-16 
>> or UTF-32 encoding (although historical encodings like Big5, Shift-
>> JIS, and now GB18030 for China are still rather popular, and those are
>> multibyte encodings), and things like gcc's implementation of
>> widechars or Python are standardizing on UTF-32.
>>     
>
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