Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:38:36 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Sebastian Kutsch <freebsd-questions@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help with UTF-8 ! Message-ID: <40F82EBC.2040008@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040716095331.154555eb.freebsd-questions@gmx.de> References: <20040716095331.154555eb.freebsd-questions@gmx.de>
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Sebastian Kutsch wrote: > My primary goal is to use filenames with none ASCII-characters like > german umlauts or kyrillic-characters. You might want to use a Mac and it's HFS+ filesystem instead: that platform handles foreign-language filenames significantly better than I've seen any Unix using UFS do. > I have installed the utf8local port, set the environment variable > "LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8" in ~/.login for each user (including root) and > use the sysconsolefont "iso15-8x16". > This works fine for german umlauts when using the console only. But I > get problems when using somthing like samba or rox-filer. I think they > use libiconv, because using iconve to encode none-ASCII-characters from > ISO_8859-15 to UTF-8 on the console I get the same glibberish as using > samba (with a samba client like xsmbrows or windows) or konqueror or > rox-filer... Dunno. How does Samba handle the mapping for Windows-style case-insensitive filenames when using foreign language codesets? I suspect there are going to be some pretty wacky issues there. The notion that there are capital letters which don't have a lowercase letter has broken an entire generation of tr scripts, for example. :-) -- -Chuck
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