You changed more than just the kernel, right? You re-installed the whole system. I think the default locale may be different between your old and new systems. What does the locale command return on both the 2.4 and 2.6 systems? I think the filesystem may be returning the same bytes, but the xterm or whatever is assuming a different character set.
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 13:56 -0500, Daniel Savard wrote: > I'm sorry to asked about this. I read as much as I could in the > archive trying to find out a solution to my problem. I have seen those > posts in the past with a distracted eye thinking I'm ok with my > systems. > > Until I decided migration time has arrived and I need to switch to > kernel 2.6.10. So, I took a backup on a external Jaz 2GB drive for all > the important stuff I need to recover on this specific machine (my > laptop). The filesystem on the Jaz drive is a jfs. In fact, I am a > wall to wall jfs guy, until now. > > So, I finally migrated this old laptop installation, I mean I > reinstalled everything from scratch. The kernel was 2.4.20 or > something like that. I then rebooted everything, but the PC Card > adapter for my Jaz drive refused to work properly (seems there is a > bug in the driver), so, I installed the Jaz drive on a 2.4.20 Linux > server I still have and mounted the drive. Everything is fine and I > did a tar file with some of the files I want to migrate first in a > rush. I then untarred this file on my fresh 2.6.10 laptop and BOOM! I > hitted the character-set problem. On all my systems, the > CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT is iso8859-1, I tried to mount my file system on > which the files were untarred with the iocharset=utf8, > iocharset=iso8859-1 and in both cases the filenames and the content of > ascii files isn't properly shown. So, my question: > > How am I supposed to perform the conversion? > > Sub-question: Why iso8859-1 from a 2.4.xx kernel to iso8859-1 on a > 2.6.10 is raising such character-set problems? I was convinced to > never hit this problem by choosing everything iso8859-1. That's not > the case. > > -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
