Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:24:09 +0200 From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages Message-ID: <cf9b1ee01003030124o4638e920w995eacbc20657e99@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windows client, the file and directory names all look correct. However when accessing these same files locally, the file- and directory names that utilize russian and finnish languages are full of question marks, like this for russian: -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 11M Feb 21 2008 ???????????? ?????????? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 9.2M Feb 21 2008 ??????????-?????????????????? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 6.3M Feb 21 2008 ?????????????????? ????... -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.6M Feb 21 2008 ???????????????????????? ???????? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.1M Feb 21 2008 ?????????????? ???????? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.7M Feb 21 2008 ?????????????? and like this for finnish: drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 13 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Hoitovirhe drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 7 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Niuva 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 13 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Pirun Nyrkki drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 12 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - U.S.C.H.! And operating on these files locally is tricky to say the least: for example I cannot do a: cd "???????????? ??????????" for obvious reasons, because there is no directory that REALLY has all those question marks. However, I am still able to browse and operate on these files using Midnight Commander, somehow it actually works. How do I need to set the locale settings on the FreeBSD machine so that all file names are displayed correctly when operated on locally? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov
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