Hmm, just tested this with Danish. [root@llephaane kenneth]# locale | grep LANG LANG=da_DK.UTF-8 [root@llephaane kenneth]# touch pålægsbrød [root@llephaane kenneth]# sh recode-file ISO-8859-1 UTF-8 pålægsbrød [root@llephaane kenneth]# ls p* pÃ¥lægsbrød
Also looks like that when I try to open it from within gedit and other GNOME apps. Kenneth lør, 2002-10-05 kl. 18:09 skrev Havoc Pennington: > > Emanuel Mair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If I run something like gedit from a terminal and open a file > > requester I get a message saying: "Gtk-Message: The filename > > "someswedishcharacter.foo" could not be converted to UTF-8 (try to > > set the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES): Invalid byte > > sequence in conversion in-data" [my translation]. This is repeated > > once for each "broken" filename in the file requester. But that env > > var *is* set! > > What is your locale, though? G_BROKEN_FILENAMES means that filenames > are in locale encoding. So you need to be in a Latin-1 locale, not a > UTF-8 locale, to use Latin-1 filenames. > > You could also try renaming files to UTF-8. Appended is a quick > script that lets you do something like: > > recode-file.sh ISO-8859-1 UTF-8 myfile > > > "When I hear the word Unicode, I cock my gun." ;) > > One thing about Unicode is that it makes all of us experience the pain > that Asia has been experiencing for years - part of the point is to > get the Asian locales to finally work properly. ;-) > > Ironically enough, we don't default the Asian locales to Unicode > because there are so many CJK-specific hacks that they rely on that > need to be fixed in the Unicode case... > > Other than that, Unicode lets us mix more than one language on a > single system, and handle things like word wrap correctly for all > languages. > > Havoc > > #! /bin/bash > > set -e > > ## be sure we don't have side effects from locale we're running in > export LANG=C > export LC_ALL=C > > SOURCE_ENCODING=$1 > DEST_ENCODING=$2 > FILENAME=$3 > > NEW_FILENAME=`echo -n "$FILENAME" | iconv -f $SOURCE_ENCODING -t $DEST_ENCODING -o -` > > if ! test "$FILENAME" -ef "$NEW_FILENAME"; then > mv "$FILENAME" "$NEW_FILENAME" > else > echo "$FILENAME is unchanged" > fi > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
