Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:34:34 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc Message-ID: <20121105203434.0d9e2565.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAD2Ti2_biQ%2BpOjh9AT2tC-=RBaaHf22U%2BaMDR%2B9vRg4bXduGbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAD2Ti29qi_kXRYsvPuv873WSrX=x2Gh6cq28BcwsYd5s-t9eog@mail.gmail.com> <20121105022745.adc3e4c2.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAD2Ti2_biQ%2BpOjh9AT2tC-=RBaaHf22U%2BaMDR%2B9vRg4bXduGbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:05:17 -0500, grarpamp wrote: > >> As an aside, why does FreeBSD seem to default to the above locale > >> instead of say, en_US.UTF-8 ? > > > > FreeBSD's file system does not default to any locale, as far as I > > know. The system is "agnostic" to what the characters in the file > > name mean or what symbol they should represent. >=20 > Sure the fs is just binary, then viewed and written through > the mask of the selected langauge layer I think. Yes, that seems to be the case. > > There isn't much you can do on file system level except renaming > > the files: write a program that reads the file names according > > to the preferred interpretation and write new names for them, >=20 > I'll read more on language to see if I can reverse that and > recover them or just replace with X's. For X it's importat to have the required language variables set and the fonts containing the characters which are represented. > I was looking mostly for a tool that would show me what a > filename or data looks like in hex, octal, and different > selected encodings. Doing it by hand is slow. I'll check > ports again. The system already brings such a tool: od (octal, decimal, hex, ASCII dump). For example: % ls -w m=FCslifra=DF.txt | od -h 0000000 fc6d 6c73 6669 6172 2edf 7874 0a74 This is on en_US.ISO8859-1 (german special characters will be displayed properly as 1-bytes both in X and in console mode). --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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