On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:38:57AM -0000, NAWAS wrote:
> Hi
Hi Nawas,
> I have samba server, when I am copying Arbic files / folders from MAC
> / windows it popup "Youcannot copy some of these items to the
> destination because they have too long or conatin invalid characters
> for the dstination"
> Please help me in solving this issue
Did you copy the files from a MAC or a Windows machine onto your Linux
box or did you copy it from Windows on your AppleBSD^WMAC box?
Ignoring the first part of the error message (that the filenames are too
long) there are three possible reasons for a mesage like this:
1. The operating system where you issue the copy command does not
correctly recognize the character encoding of the source filesystem.
2. The operating system where you issue the copy command does not
correctly recognize the character encoding of the target filesystem.
3. The target filesystem does not support Arabic characters.
1.)
Although I have no experiences with this issue the first thing I would
try to achieve is to see the names of your Arabic files appearing right
(not as boxes or question marks) when you do a file listing on your
source folder. Once you've done that you can be (almost) sure that your
operating system understands the character encoding of your source
filesystem.
2.)
Now it depends on the target filesystem. There is a high chance that
your target filesystem uses a different character encoding for
filenames. That means that the filenames need to be converted on a byte
level to represent the same characters. When you have already filenames
with Arabic characters on the target filesystem, the next step would be
making sure that those are displayed correctly in a file listing.
3.)
When you target filesystem uses one of these: UNICODE (UTF-...,
UCS-...), Windows-1256, ISO_8859-6 you should be fine.
Dirk Tilger
Advanced Technologies ME FZ LLC
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