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Old 02-26-2009, 02:01 PM   #1
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Special characters in reiserfs


Hi,
I want to name files and folders with special characters like "á", "ç" or "ô". The way my /etc/fstab is specified it can't do that. how can I do it?

cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs notail 0 1
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

thanks
 
Old 02-26-2009, 02:19 PM   #2
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Ummm ... that's not a file-system issue ... I'm using Reiser here.
Code:
tmp$ mkdir aôa
tmp$ ls -lt                                             
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 tink users   48 2009-02-26 09:18 aôa
Check your locale
 
Old 02-26-2009, 02:24 PM   #3
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That is strange! I'm French, and I've used all sorts of French characters é à ù ô ë È in many filenames since years. (I use ReiserFS by the way, but I think this is totally unrelated.)
I even created a 日本語 ("japonais" en français) folder on one my partitions, and linked it on my desktop without any problem; even the command-line deals with it fine.

What is your distribution, and what makes you think you cannot use such characters?

Yves.
 
Old 02-26-2009, 03:00 PM   #4
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Dudes, i am sorry. is not a file system problem.
I just realized that is something with rsync.
Rsync daemon is running on a Debian 4 machine.
Rsync clients are running in windows machines.
when I send files to the debian server it desconfigures filenames.

rsync -Cavz --delete ... for the file "Estações de trabalho" in windows transforms into "Esta??es de trabalho" in Debian server.

Any clues?
 
Old 02-26-2009, 03:21 PM   #5
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UTF-8 on windows, iso-8859-? on Debian?
 
Old 02-26-2009, 07:19 PM   #6
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Didn't get it
 
Old 02-26-2009, 09:15 PM   #7
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Which part?

Have a read of
man iconv
man rsync
/iconv

Find out what locale the debian machine uses
env | egrep "LC|LANG"
 
Old 02-27-2009, 11:33 AM   #8
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# env | egrep "LC|LANG"
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=pt_BRt:en

I understood that iconv converts the hole file not its filename. is that correct?
 
Old 02-27-2009, 12:01 PM   #9
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thanks everyone, I found the solution here:
http://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/10/28...c-and-unicode/
 
Old 02-27-2009, 03:13 PM   #10
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Excellent work, glad you got that sorted ;}


Sorry I didn't get a chance to respond sooner,
time-zones, you see :D

Adeus,
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