Folders recognization

serafimg · 08-21-2006, 04:36 PM

I use the Debian Linux 3,1 r2 and my problem is that the folders which are written in Greek are not recognized!!

thanks for your time!

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jonaskoelker · 08-22-2006, 08:48 AM

I'll gladly try to help. However, I do not understand what it means for a folder to be written in greek (is it the name of the folder you're talking about? Is it a comment? The output of readdir?). Also, I do not know what you mean by "recognizing a folder". What are the higher-level goal you're trying to accomplish (read the files in the directory?)? Are you using a particular program to try and "recognize" the folder? If so, which? What is the particular error message?

Please read "How to ask questions the smart way" (Raymond) and "reporting bugs effectively" (Tatham) -- STW.

serafimg · 09-01-2006, 04:02 PM

I mean that the name of the folder is written in the Greek language. The goal that I try to accomplish is to read the files in the directory. There isn't an error message. The folders don't appear neither with the Konqueror nor with the shell(by using the command cd).
Excuse me for my English level(!)

jonaskoelker · 09-01-2006, 07:15 PM

The `cd' command doesn't do very much on its own, it just conceptually "moves" you to the directory you give as an argument. If you want to see what's actually inside the directory, use `ls'. Here's an example:

Code:

~ $ cd thing-with-greek-name
~/thing-with-greek-name $ ls -1
file-with-greek-name
yet-another-file-with-a-greek-name

Your english is not a problem.

You say that the folders don't appear. I read that as the folders with the greek names. If they don't appear at all, how do you know/infer that they exist? If they appear empty, try doing an `ls' inside them. Try enabling the showing of hidden files with konqueror (probably under `view' when using a non-KHTML view mode). Trying doing "ls -lda /home/$SERAFIMG/name-of-greekly-named-folder/.*"--what are the results? How about "find /home/$SERAFIMG/name-of-greekly-named-folder"?

What are the particular names of the greekly named folders? What are the english meanings of the greek names? Try running `locate ".desktop" | grep /home/$SERAFIMG'; see if any of the output looks "interesting". You may (or may not) need to filter out something. grep -v may come in handy for that.

(replace $SERAFIMG with your username throughout code snippets, of course).

serafimg · 09-10-2006, 04:14 PM

My folders with greek names don't appear. I know that they exist because I use a dual operating system (Linux and Windows). So, when I boot with Windows all folders are appeared properly.

I can't do an `ls' inside them because they are not appeared at all!!

jonaskoelker · 09-11-2006, 12:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by serafimg

I know that they exist because I use a dual operating system (Linux and Windows). So, when I boot with Windows all folders are appeared properly.

Okay. Which filesystem is on the partition that the files are on? NTFS? FAT32? ext2? ext3? ReiserFS?

Quote:

I can't do an `ls' inside them because they are not appeared at all!!

Okay. What happens when you try? I'm thinking something like this:

Code:

$ ls folder-with-greek-name
ls: folder-with-greek-name: No such file or directory

Can you cd into the folders? Which error message do you get? Can you stat them (like this)?

Code:

$ stat directory
  File: 'directory/'
  Size: 2744          Blocks: 5          IO block: 131072 directory
(and more)

Please post the output.