Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:24:48 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ? Message-ID: <4DDA7C40.2090609@esiee.fr> In-Reply-To: <201105231308.p4ND8pTY029948@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201105231308.p4ND8pTY029948@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On 05/23/2011 03:08 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:54:44 +0200 >> From: Frank Bonnet<f.bonnet@esiee.fr> >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ? >> >> Le 22/05/2011 17:31, Mike Jeays a ecrit : >>> On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:00:48 +0200 Frank Bonnet<f.bonnet@esiee.fr> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I'm going mad trying to Open a file which the filename contains one or >>>> more French characters ( file not found ) Is there some magical >>>> receipe to do so ? Or do I have to forget trying ??? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>> If the first few characters is not accented, type 'mv "', then the >>> first few characters, in a command line, and press 'tab' so the >>> auto-completion works. Don't forget the closing quote. Then rename it >>> to something else. >> Access right are OK ( 644 ) the completion does not work, the operating >> system says file not found when I try to open it with any program. >> >> when I type the "ls -l" command the file is displayed with a "?" in place >> of the French (accentuated ) character >> >> I tried UTF8 or iso8859-1 as MM-CHARSET and fr_FR.ISO8859-1 as LANG >> global variables but it still don-t work > The *easy* work-arouond -- it does -not- solve the real problem, but does > let you work with the file -- is to rename the file. Not easy the file is created by a software that extract it from a SQL database > *Assuming* you are seeing the rest of the filename, _after_ the '?' character, > then issue an 'mv' command, using the source file name _exactly_ as shown > (i.e., _with_ the '?' in place of the unprintable character), and using a > destination file name that is _without_ any accented characters in it. > > If that mv fails, try repeating it, but using an '*' instead of the '?'. > > Oh, there is one more situation that can cause the kind of problem you are > seeing. Does the 'ls -l' show it as an _actual_ file, or a 'symlink' (to > a file that does not exist)? A 'dangling symlink' can give all sorts of > "strange" errors. > no it is not a symlink it's a "real" file
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