From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 22:44:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911A0106568B for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:44:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDAE8FC18 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:44:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KEZ00BZM5UGWC60@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:44:41 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <9BDCF06E-713F-4627-B8E6-8D15D5F3F120@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Daniel Leal In-reply-to: <499498A4.4000103@webvolution.net> Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:44:40 -0800 References: <499498A4.4000103@webvolution.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accents in file names X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:44:52 -0000 On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote: > is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with =20 > accented words. Like "fil=E9.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy = =20 > a file with an accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented =20 > letter simply disappear. UFS supports 8-bit characters except for "/" and "\0", but you also =20 need to run a terminal with UTF8 support and use a correct font to =20 view such things. Perhaps this might give you some insight: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Note that other file systems have more comprehensive Unicode support: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits Perhaps I'm biased, but I've long been of the opinion that the Mac =20 platform with HFS+ has very good internationalization support. Regards, --=20 -Chuck