filenames in japanese, korean...

Arnaud_B · 06-21-2005, 08:20 PM

Hi,
I would like to be able to see filenames in japanese and korean. I have some files that have korean/japanese filenames and I am looking for a way to see them correctly.
Does someone already managed to set that up?
Thanks in advance,
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kirillrdy · 06-21-2005, 09:46 PM

Hey, Can I aks what distro are you using?
You just need
1) mount disks with utf-8 ,
2) have proper fonts installed.
3) luck

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Its not that hard to set it up, but it depends on disto you are you using.
SuSE uses utf8 by default, with Mandriva,Fedora, Debian and other debian based like Ubuntu . its easy to configure,.
Just tell us what distro?

Arnaud_B · 06-21-2005, 10:06 PM

Thanks for your answer,
Distro is debian. I have the correct fonts (xfonts and others). But I never tried to mount partitions with utf8... honestly I even didn't think to that... I am going to check how to do that :-)
and Luck.. well I'll let you know soon ;-)
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kirillrdy · 06-21-2005, 10:14 PM

Good Luck < Hehe,,
I have lots of Japanese music,, and once I almost f**ed up all of it,,, with file names.
So Luck is essential...

Do As Infinity THE BEST

Arnaud_B · 06-21-2005, 10:18 PM

japanese songs too ;-)
I'm now looking around in google... is the correct way to mount in utf8 is to add 'iocharset=utf8' in my fstab file?
Tks,
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kirillrdy · 06-21-2005, 10:37 PM

Yeah thats right,,,
One more thing,,, I am not sure about it, couse the only time i had deal with Debian based stuff was Ubuntu distro,
For Ubuntu also recomended to run

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Run that , and in there ENABLE UTF-8 Jp, or what ever language you want
I think it should run on Debian,, This will allow your programs work with utf8
Well, I hope i was helpfull, if not,
We'll try something else.

Lowe · 06-21-2005, 11:21 PM

apt-get install localeconf

Ok you will be presented by a curses based config tool.
Select yes for the first two questions.
Now select your language, for example let's say your from the uk, you would pick en_GB.UTF8, replace en_GB with your language. But it must have UTF8 at the end!
Once that's done you need some nice fonts.

apt-get install ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho

Once that's done, you will need to reboot for your locale changes to take effect.

Arnaud_B · 06-22-2005, 01:54 AM

thanks all for your help. I'll be trying it soon and I'll let you know
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Arnaud_B · 06-23-2005, 07:42 PM

It works great! actually it was way easier than I thought.
Thanks for your help,
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