[SOLVED] Linux file title encoding

LiFo14 · 12-11-2016, 05:45 AM

Hi!

I am Russian guy, but language on all my machines is English. Love that language. So there is some problem with cyrillic titled files. Is there a way to fix it?

bigrigdriver · 12-11-2016, 09:59 AM

It may be that you do not have the necessary language packs installed to properly display Cryllic.

Open a terminal and enter this command:

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yum list installed | grep UTF.

If youdon't see the Russian or Cryllic packages installed, you will need to installed them.

Another command to try:

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yum grouplist | grep ru

If you find that the Russian language packs are not installed, you can install them with this command:

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sudo dnf install langpacks-ru

LiFo14 · 12-11-2016, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

It may be that you do not have the necessary language packs installed to properly display Cryllic.

Open a terminal and enter this command:

Code:

yum list installed | grep UTF.

If youdon't see the Russian or Cryllic packages installed, you will need to installed them.

Another command to try:

Code:

yum grouplist | grep ru

If you find that the Russian language packs are not installed, you can install them with this command:

Code:

sudo dnf install langpacks-ru

Yes, some packages have been installed, but it took no affect even after reboot

DavidMcCann · 12-11-2016, 11:06 AM

Open a terminal and try "ls Music". If the file name is still garbage, then you got it from some source that doesn't use Unicode and you just need to rename it manually.

I doubt that the problem is the font that's being used in that file manager. If it lacked Cyrillic, it would show little boxes rather than code numbers, or the the GUI would just find the characters in another font.

LiFo14 · 12-11-2016, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

Open a terminal and try "ls Music". If the file name is still garbage, then you got it from some source that doesn't use Unicode and you just need to rename it manually.

I doubt that the problem is the font that's being used in that file manager. If it lacked Cyrillic, it would show little boxes rather than code numbers, or the the GUI would just find the characters in another font.

I think manual renaming is the solution. Programs like VLC recognize original title.

DavidMcCann · 12-12-2016, 10:50 AM

Yes, VLC will read the name of the track from inside the file, rather than the name of the file, so it is just the file name that's wrong. It's obviously not been converted from Windows's UTF-16 encoding to Linux's UTF-8.

LiFo14 · 12-12-2016, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

Yes, VLC will read the name of the track from inside the file, rather than the name of the file, so it is just the file name that's wrong. It's obviously not been converted from Windows's UTF-16 encoding to Linux's UTF-8.

Is there some packages to add UTF-16 support? Or I should manually/with some script change file names? Saw this recently, it may be the solution.

DavidMcCann · 12-13-2016, 10:46 AM

That other post is about text files being converted with iconv. There is a tool for file names, which I've only just discovered (one of the good things about answering questions): convmv.
http://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/
That looks like what you need.

LiFo14 · 12-14-2016, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

That other post is about text files being converted with iconv. There is a tool for file names, which I've only just discovered (one of the good things about answering questions): convmv.
http://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/
That looks like what you need.

I agree, a ton of things can be learnt by answering questions from other people

Yes, it is great utility. But I'll better rename files manually...