Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:29:55 +0200 From: Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no> To: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>, =?UTF-8?B?TSZTIC0gS3Jhc3puYWkgQW5kcg==?= =?UTF-8?B?w6Fz?= <Krasznai.Andras@mands.hu>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd and utf-8 directory names Message-ID: <53B2D3F3.4080304@thanelange.no> In-Reply-To: <53B10A28.4080005@gwdg.de> References: <3B0F582294DE3E448963BA62DC306AEE3C7F5FBCEC@exchange.mands.hu> <53B10A28.4080005@gwdg.de>
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Den 30. juni 2014 08:56, skrev Rainer Hurling: > Am 30.06.2014 08:30 (UTC+1) schrieb M&S - Krasznai András: >> Hi >> >> I have been using FreeBSD as desktop since 2003, and living in a mixed (windows-linux) environment I installed FreeBSd along with my usual (Windows 7) work environment, I have a dualboot configured laptop. I use FreeBSD-10 STABLE. >> >> There is a partition formatted for FAT32 where I store documents which I would like to view (and edit) both in windows and freebsd. >> >> The problem is that if the path name contains certain Hungarian characters (e.g o with double accent), then libreoffice in FreeBSD refuses to open them complaining about illegal characters. The directory was created in windows, the document also, and I can handle them perfectly from windows (what is more, libreoffice under a linux can also open those documents). Some accented characters are shown as a question mark in FreeBSD, and some others are as a black rectangle; these latter are causing problems. If a file-nam contains such characters then the file is shown as 0- length in Midnight Commander. >> >> I tried some steps described in the „Localization” part of the FreeBSD Handbook, but things did not improve. >> >> I installed PC-BSD with Hungarian language support, thinking that it would handle the localized directory names correctly but no, it gives the same error message. >> >> This problem is really annoying. How could I solve it? > > In my German environment I also use FAT32 formatted drives, mounted like: > > /dev/adaXsX /XXX msdosfs rw,large,-Lde_DE.UTF-8 0 0 > > This should also work for Hungarian? I second this advice, it should work well for any language (It certainly is fine for my Norwegian). To expand on Rainer's suggestion: The -L parameter in the mount line is from the mount_msdosfs(8) utility. The man page says: -L locale Specify locale name used for file name conversions for DOS and Win'95 names. By default ISO 8859-1 assumed as local character set. The locale of your environment and mount command must match. In my case it is: LC_CTYPE=no_NO.UTF-8 mount_msdosfs -L no_NO.UTF-8 /dev/da3s1 /mnt/tmp (Regarding whether the default of ISO 8859-1 for mount_msdosfs should be changed to some UTF-8 locale to better match what people are using in this age is an entirely different matter. ;-) Best regards, Gyrd ^_^ > > HTH, > Rainer Hurling > > >> Krasznai András >> rendszermérnök >> M&S Informatikai Zrt. >> 1136 Budapest, Pannónia u. 17/A. >> Telefon: +36 1 703-2923 >> Mobil: +36 30 703-2923 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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