international characters in linux preventing me from accessing files

hypermegachi · 10-29-2003, 02:48 PM

i've just recently installed slack 9.1 (after trying out others like MDK, RH, Debian)...but i stumbled upon a problem that i only encountered with slack.

i have some music files with chinese characters in them, and folders too. and slack is unable to access them. it doesn't show them at all. what do i need to install/configure to get slack to recognize these characters and allow me to access the files/folders?

thanx

hypermegachi · 10-29-2003, 05:11 PM

sorry i'm just a baffoon...after some seraching i had to remount with UTF8 on

Micro420 · 10-29-2003, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by hypermegachi
sorry i'm just a baffoon...after some seraching i had to remount with UTF8 on

Tell me more. How did you do this and did you lose any data? I have some mp3's and they have Japanese characters in them and they don't show up in Mandrake 9.1. I guess I could go into my windows and rename them to english texts, but I can't read japanese so I wouldn't know what to call them!