Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:10:03 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utf8 Message-ID: <47FBA6EB.2040106@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <6ae50c2d0804080906l9187ddah892d5f225afaf2e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <6ae50c2d0804072159h51cc13axa0fbdf2a8623a6b5@mail.gmail.com> <47FB0786.4030407@otenet.gr> <6ae50c2d0804080906l9187ddah892d5f225afaf2e4@mail.gmail.com>
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alexus wrote: > 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. >> >> You will still be able to see the filenames when connected via ssh from a terminal program that supports UTF8 (like e.g. Putty from a Windows machine or an xterm from a Linux or other BSD machine). AFAIK there is no way to see them directly from FreeBSD's text console.
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