On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question > > mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand > > what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of fundamentals. > > > > 1) what is the default encoding of my debian system? > > On new Etch installs, UTF-8 is the default. On older systems, it depends > on you locale (I'm not sure if a system upgraded to Etch would be UTF-8 > or not). In the US it would be ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15, I think. Use the > command "locale" and see what it says. Mine says en_US.UTF-8
I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little arrows in mutt's index. Also a lot of manpages don't show correctly. I have to set LC_CTYPE to a non utf-8 locale. But I wonder if it is also the choice of console font. > There are programs that can convert between encodings, including the > "convmv" package, which converts only filenames, the package > "utf8-migration-tool" and the "recode" package. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show utf8-migration-tool W: Unable to locate package utf8-migration-tool E: No packages found I'm running an up to date Etch system. -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
