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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:06:36 -0400
From:      alexus <alexus@gmail.com>
To:        "Manolis Kiagias" <sonicy@otenet.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: utf8
Message-ID:  <6ae50c2d0804080906l9187ddah892d5f225afaf2e4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47FB0786.4030407@otenet.gr>
References:  <6ae50c2d0804072159h51cc13axa0fbdf2a8623a6b5@mail.gmail.com> <47FB0786.4030407@otenet.gr>

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I'm not an X user, I use shell.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote:
> 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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