From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ext2srv understands only 7bit ASCII file names?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:22:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e96e610.8449340a.64ab.ffffa465@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaiYYwJXaF6JApbYXg5nGBuy2ArDBCbgPYW9cmNu176n4f1qQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Oct 13, 2011 at 07:16, slash wrote:
> I have some files on an external ext2 drive that have whitespace and
> umlauts (ä, ö) in them. trfs took care of the whitespace. But ext2srv
> presents umlauts as a question mark symbol (�) and won't let me access
> the file (error: file does not exist).
>
> Where is the problem? These files show correctly in linux.
The names are probably encoded in latin-1, as dexen said.
One option is to change your Linux locale and rename all your files.
Another is to change ext2srv to interpret disk names as Latin-1
if given a flag (say, -1). A third, and perhaps the easiest,
is to use trfs to translate between UTF-8 names and Latin-1 names.
I say perhaps because it is possible that the kernel will reject
the Latin-1 as being malformed UTF-8, but I think the odds are
good that it will just let it through.
Russ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 11:15 slash
2011-10-13 11:37 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-13 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-13 14:28 ` slash
2011-10-13 15:20 ` Russ Cox
2011-10-13 15:25 ` slash.9fans
2011-10-13 15:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-16 13:19 ` slash
2011-10-13 13:22 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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