Hi,

I have all my University-related ms-documents and files (over 100 of them) on my Windows xp partition, which is of course NTFS.
Now I'd really need all of those files moved to my linux-partition. I succeeded in mounting the windows partition np....... but the filenames are not correct! I presume its because ntfs uses utf-16 convention and linux ext3 uses utf-8, and my locales are in finnish, with alot of special characters that do not show up right in filenames.

Notice that there is no use for such tools as iconv... I dont need to mess with the filecontents, I only need the names right!

I tried different windows part. mounting options (like iocharset), with no luck.

I thought, that if I'd use something like winzip or winace to make a package of all those files and open it in linux, would that help?? Now the names are so corrupt (unregnized letters) that I cant even open them in openoffice....

I know this is probably not what you are looking for, but if you have mounted the NTFS drive as read-only, the originals should still be intact? Can you not rename the originals to use UTF-8 and then copy them over? That way you can sort out the character problem when you have some free time, and not 2 days before that next paper is due in

Yes, I had the sense to mount it only with reading rights, so I haven't done any damage as of yet.

Still I'd hope there would be some simple thing to make things right... naming hundreds of documents by hand doesnt sound right to me.

How do u tell windows xp to use utf-8 instead of utf-16 in filenames?

What's your $LANG variable?
In my case it's $LANG=en_US.utf8 ("utf8" makes the difference).
If your locale is not set to utf8, set it.
Then mount your NTFS partition with:
File names should be displayed correctly.
NTFS uses utf8 charset.