Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 20:01 schrieb Nicos Gollan: > > Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter > > cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed > > xfree-cyrillic (a really good idea, but I bet I selected this by first > > install... anyway). > > I guess y

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
The FS is the last thing I dont understand: if the file name is a double wide charset, how can the file name be stored without loosing information? Do you know what I mean? It would appear to me that the charset selection only determines how the characters will be displayed, wouldn't it

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Well, depending on what encoding the filenames (I suppose we're still > talking about filenames?) were before, you'll first have to convert them > to UTF8. There is a script somewhere that will do this similar to the > recode utility, but I can't find it right now. I found something called konver

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:56:54 +0200 "J. Preiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter > cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed > xfree-cyrillic (a really good idea, but I bet I selected this by first > install... anyway).

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> X, DM, KDE: needs proper fonts > KDE: needs locale set > mount: as mentioned, the FS doesn't care what encoding you're using :-) > console: good luck Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed xfree-cyrillic (a re

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-07 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:26:17 +0200 "J. Preiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am at the point that cyrillic chars are always -displays (in > text mode) and glyphs in graphic mode (konqueror). I changed the > charset of konqi to utf8 without any change. Am I too stupid to use > debian? Maybe...

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
> Please don't post new questions as replies to old threads. I'll never do this, sorry. Now I know why some messages are sorted strange :-) > > Using UTF-8 characters ist not really a filesystem problem, the FS > doesn't care too much what characters you use as long as there are no > control chara

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-02 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:23:18 +0200 "J. Preiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isnt there a way to use utf-8 encoding for ext3 partitions? I urgently > need umlauts and cyrillic characters, so utf 8 would be the best > choice. Now I run in trouble when I try to create m3u playlist. The > filesnames do

charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
Isnt there a way to use utf-8 encoding for ext3 partitions? I urgently need umlauts and cyrillic characters, so utf 8 would be the best choice. Now I run in trouble when I try to create m3u playlist. The filesnames dont match. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u