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Date:      Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:49:58 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        alexus <alexus@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: utf8
Message-ID:  <47FB0786.4030407@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <6ae50c2d0804072159h51cc13axa0fbdf2a8623a6b5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6ae50c2d0804072159h51cc13axa0fbdf2a8623a6b5@mail.gmail.com>

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alexus wrote:
> how do I make my FreeBSD-7 to understand UTF-8? I have files that i
> need to transfer, but when i do it converts to ????????? instead of
> name
>
>   
The console will not show UTF-8 filenames, though they are stored normally.
If you use X, then doing something along the line of export 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 before startx will allow you to see the filenames 
normally from an X terminal.



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