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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>
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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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