From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 19:39:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A45016A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:39:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C090643D68 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:39:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040716193918.VSUB6671.out003.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:39:18 -0500 Message-ID: <40F82EBC.2040008@mac.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:38:36 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sebastian Kutsch References: <20040716095331.154555eb.freebsd-questions@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20040716095331.154555eb.freebsd-questions@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:39:17 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help with UTF-8 ! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:39:19 -0000 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