Néstor wrote: > I made a mistake, on my linux's FF it displays as "World,s Largest" > but on W2K's FF it displays as "World?s Largest" <-- the question mark is > actually a question mark inside a black diamond box. > > I can tell you that the tar backup was done in a 32 bit machine and I > untarred it in a 64 bit machine. >
It sounds like a difference in locale settings. For example one machine (Lx) has latin-1 (or utf_8, or ??), the other (W2k) has utf_16 (I think). What do you mean by "host backups" -- maybe the actual files will suggest further ideas. What application was used to create the source files -- html content, I'm guessing. Are you are reading untarred html from file://localhost/... locations, perhaps? Can you extract a portion (of the actual file, not from the browser) containing the funny-stuff in binary -- or maybe hexdump, which you can post. Also what does locale report on your Lx system. tar (or gzip/bzip) does no file content conversions. So when reading content encoded 'somewhere else', you just may need to convert things. You may find man iconv helpful. Or perhaps, a google search on text encoding conversion Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
