Re: [FC2] Character set problem, still there :(

From: Coume - Lubox.com (coume.mailinglists_at_lubox.com)
Date: 05/24/04

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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:48:58 +0200

    Hello,

    On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:59, Björn Persson wrote:
    > The file names are encoded in one of the 8-bit encodings, probably Latin
    > 1 (ISO 8859-1) or Latin 9 (ISO 8859-15), but Fedora assumes that they
    > are in UTF-8. You can change Fedora's system-wide character encoding in
    > /etc/sysconfig/i18n. I hear Latin 9 is best for French.

    Erm, I might try to change this char coding to see how it goes, I hope
    it will not become worst :)

    > > Then I had a mad idea, rename all those problematic files to get them
    > > working... Sounds great, doesn't it?
    >
    > File names can be converted. The content of the files is worse, because
    > plain text files must be converted while many other file formats must
    > not be touched, and some files like XML need to be converted if you want
    > them to be readable in text editors, but may or may not be in a
    > different encoding and may or may not contain encoding information that
    > has to be updated if they are converted.
    That's great if file names can be converted, I will have to look at that.. like for converting all my old file as UTF-8

    But just wondering, how are displayed UTF-8 under windows? are they well
    displayed?

    > Does Linux view the iRiver as a hard disk, a file server or something
    > else? If it's viewed as a disk, I bet it's mounted as VFAT. Long file
    > names in VFAT are in a 16-bit encoding (UTF-16 or UCS-2), and the driver
    > converts them.
    Yep, I just mount my iRiver as a normal 20Go HDD thourh my USB post
    /dev/sda1

    > It seems that for some reason you have to give parameters
    > to mount to tell it which encoding to translate to. You'd think it could
    > have used the system-wide encoding automatically ...
    Yep I would have think that :D

    > Björn Persson
    Thxs for all those info Björn

    Regards
    Ludovic
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