Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:02:25 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Colin Brace <cb@lim.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext3 to ufs: filename character encoding woes Message-ID: <48A697A1.2020101@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19009703.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <19009703.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Using rsync, I copied a collection of MP3s from an ext3 partition on my
> Linux F9 box to a UFS partition my FreeBSD 7 box. Many of the song titles
> had accented characters, which are now displayed as two question marks (??)
> on my FreeBSD system, like this:
>
> Toquinho & Vinícius - Samba da Benção.mp3 -->
> Toquinho & Vin??cius - Samba da Ben????o.mp3
>
> Thinking that rsync might be interfering in some way, I checked the man page
> and found this option to use:
>
> -8, --8-bit-output leave high-bit chars unescaped in output
>
> but it makes no difference. I then tried copying a file with scp and then
> just cp across an NFS share. In every case, the accents get hosed.
>
> My Linux box is configured for UTF-8:
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> I would have assumed that this would also be the default setting for
> FreeBSD, but this appears not to be the case.
>
> Googling, I came up with instructions for editing /etc/login.conf, so I
> added
>
> :charset=en_US.UTF-8:
>
> under
>
> default:\
>
> exited the shell and logged in again, but no change.
>
> What I am missing here?
# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
perhaps? You might also want to add a :lang=en_US.UTF-8: item to the
default entry in login.conf -- that will result in $LANG being set in
the environment when you next log in.
Cheers,
Matthew
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