Filename containing French characters ?

[Frank Bonnet]

Thanks that is working :-)

Now I have to test the application ( apache based application )
to see if it is able to open the file.

I'll tell in few hours when arrived to my office


Le 23/05/2011 17:50, Modulok a écrit :
> Short answer, use a glob pattern. Assume I have a file named 'à fichier.txt':
>
>      ls -l
>      -rw-r--r--  1 Modulok  Modulok       12 May 23 09:01 ?? fichier.txt
>
>      mv ?\ fichier.txt aFile.txt
>
> Long answer, for those who want to follow along and fix their terminal to
> display UTF-8, keep reading...
>
> Step 1: Make a funky file to play along with this min-tutorial:
> ===============================================================
>
> Create a text file with an editor that supports non-ASCII characters. I
> created a file named 'filename' which containing this (no newline!):
>
>          à fichier.txt
>
> Step 2: Create the actual file with content
> ===========================================
>
> I used echo and cat like so in the tcsh shell:
>
>          echo "hello world">  "`cat filename`"
>
>
> Step 3: Show the file in ls
> ===========================
>
> As you can see below, the first character of the filename is displayed as two
> question marks. This is the terminal's way of showing filenames that it cannot
> display correctly. There are two question marks, because this is a two-byte
> character. This does *not* mean the filename starts with a literal question
> mark:
>
>
>      -rw-r--r--  1 Modulok  Modulok       12 May 23 09:01 ?? fichier.txt
>
> Step 4: (optional) Fix the terminal
> ===================================
>
> At this point, let's just fix the terminal so that UTF-8 characters are
> displayed correctly. We want to see the French accented 'à', and not a bunch of
> question marks. To do this, you edit '/etc/login.conf' as root. Add two lines
> at the bottom of the 'default' section. My default section now looks like this:
>
>
>      default:\
>              :passwd_format=md5:\
>              :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
>
>              ...and so on...
>
>              :charset=en_US.UTF-8:\
>              :lang=en_US.UTF-8:
>
> If you're a French operation yours should probably look like this instead:
>
>      default:\
>              :passwd_format=md5:\
>              :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
>
>              ...and so on...
>
>              :charset=fr_FR.UTF-8:\
>              :lang=fr_FR.UTF-8:
>
> I'm not certain on these for all countries, but the above examples work. We
> then need to rebuild the actual login database. Execute the following command
> as root:
>
>      cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
>
> This generates /etc/login.conf.db from /etc/login.conf. Now log out and then
> back in!
>
>
> Step 5: Back to the funky file
> ==============================
>
> You should now see the actual accent characters correctly in the terminal.
> (Assuming your terminal supports this):
>
>      -rw-r--r--  1 Modulok  Modulok       12 May 23 09:01 à fichier.txt
>
> In some ternimals, we cannot type these characters. So you can access the
> filename through a shell glob pattern. In most shells, the glob pattern '?'
> matches any single character. The forward slash escapes the space in the
> filename.
>
>      mv ?\ fichier.txt aFile.txt
>
>
> Hope this helps (and doesn't get too mangled.)
> -Modulok-