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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2011 20:32:55 +0200
From:      Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>
To:        "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Filename containing French characters ?
Message-ID:  <4DDBF9D7.9070308@esiee.fr>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=uXYFnOVfxixFAaRQYjcugbA17Rg@mail.gmail.com>
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finally one of our developer has written
a php function that transcode all accentuated
characters to the corresponding non accentuated
thanks to her !!!

but the problem is NOT solved just workarrounded


Le 24/05/2011 19:53, C. P. Ghost a =E9crit :
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Modulok<modulok@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Short answer, use a glob pattern. Assume I have a file named '=E0 fich=
ier.txt':
>
> (...)
>
> Very good hints indeed.
>
> I once had a directory full of files with strange characters, so I wrot=
e a
> little program that replaced every non-ascii char in a filename with it=
s
> hex-encoding (like this: "Hello%20World%21", % escape char), so
> I could manipulate them with the shell. As long as the expanded
> filenames didn't hit the MAXNAMELEN limit in<sys/dirent.h>, it
> worked perfectly.
>
> I could dig this C program out of old archives, but I guess that it is
> faster to rewrite it on the fly, or even script it with sh(1), tr(1), a=
wk(1),
> and find(1)... ;-)
>
> Alternatively to such a run-once-in-a-while program, I could also
> imagine a file system layer on top of existing file systems that
> would do this conversion automatically, but that's harder to code,
> and harder to debug (kernel mode!).
>
> -cpghost.
>



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