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davidshen84
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 Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:19 am Post subject: [unicode] how to operate unicode file/directory without X? |
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Hi,
I have a gentoo 2008 which is setup as a server. I do not want to install X on it, since I do not need one. But now I have some problem operating Unicode files/directories. All the filenames are displayed as ??, so I have no way to access them. I cannot even copy them with cp *.
Those filenames are in Chinese/Japanese. I know it is impossible to display them correctly without X, or some kind of frame buffer console. Actually, I do not need to read them, I do not care if they're named properly.
What I really need is to copy/move the files, and cd into the directories.
Could anyone provide some idea on how to work this out?
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Globbing is not dependent on the display capabilities, so a command such as cp * ~/ should work just fine (I've done so myself on unreadable unicode filenames). If it doesn't, there is something else wrong.
If you can't select a particular file with the help of globbing, you can do something like this to create a neat menu:
| Code: | | cd "$(select A in *; do echo $A; break; done)" |
But that would also require globbing to work.
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davidshen84
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Cuber wrote: | Globbing is not dependent on the display capabilities, so a command such as cp * ~/ should work just fine (I've done so myself on unreadable unicode filenames). If it doesn't, there is something else wrong.
If you can't select a particular file with the help of globbing, you can do something like this to create a neat menu:
| Code: | | cd "$(select A in *; do echo $A; break; done)" |
But that would also require globbing to work. |
Yep, I remember cp * works for me previously. But it reported error last time. I will check if your solution works for me.
Thanks 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| Cuber wrote: | Globbing is not dependent on the display capabilities, so a command such as cp * ~/ should work just fine (I've done so myself on unreadable unicode filenames). If it doesn't, there is something else wrong.
If you can't select a particular file with the help of globbing, you can do something like this to create a neat menu:
| Code: | | cd "$(select A in *; do echo $A; break; done)" |
But that would also require globbing to work. |
Finally, I found this is not a issue with linux. It should be a issue with the mount.cifs. The directory I was trying to copy is a share folder from windows. But the mount.cifs cannot handle unicode correctly, thus, on linux side, the Chinese/Japanese characters are displayed as ??, and the files/directories are not accessible.
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| davidshen84 wrote: |
Finally, I found this is not a issue with linux. It should be a issue with the mount.cifs. The directory I was trying to copy is a share folder from windows. But the mount.cifs cannot handle unicode correctly, thus, on linux side, the Chinese/Japanese characters are displayed as ??, and the files/directories are not accessible. |
While I don't use samba, I had to deal with enough filesystem encoding issues, to say much of above is FUD.
As far as I googled, if samba is recent enough, 'iocharset=utf8' should help. |
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| VoidMage wrote: | | davidshen84 wrote: |
Finally, I found this is not a issue with linux. It should be a issue with the mount.cifs. The directory I was trying to copy is a share folder from windows. But the mount.cifs cannot handle unicode correctly, thus, on linux side, the Chinese/Japanese characters are displayed as ??, and the files/directories are not accessible. |
While I don't use samba, I had to deal with enough filesystem encoding issues, to say much of above is FUD.
As far as I googled, if samba is recent enough, 'iocharset=utf8' should help. |
ok, I will try. thanks
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