Re: Unicode Filenames in Archives

2008-06-14 Thread Markus Kuhn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2008-06-13 17:33 UTC: > SrinTuar wrote: > > Ive also given tarballs a shot for this task, but sadly cygwin is > > ascii-only. > To quickly respond to this side-topic: It is possible to enable UTF-8 in > cygwin in a limited way although cygwin has only bo

Re: Unicode Filenames in Archives

2008-06-13 Thread SrinTuar
Thanks Simos. I gave the 7za command line tool a try, and it seems to work quite well, and handily solves the cross-platform unicode filenames problem. (it either correctly figured out that my ext3 filenames were utf-8 based on the locale, or else it just hard assumed utf-8 period. I'm fine with e

Re: Unicode Filenames in Archives

2008-06-13 Thread towo
SrinTuar wrote: Ive also given tarballs a shot for this task, but sadly cygwin is ascii-only. To quickly respond to this side-topic: It is possible to enable UTF-8 in cygwin in a limited way although cygwin has only bogus locale support. Some applications, however, are able to support UTF-8 with

Re: Unicode Filenames in Archives

2008-06-13 Thread Simos Xenitellis
O/H SrinTuar έγραψε: Using some fairly recent O/S's, such as Fedora core 8 and WIndows XP, I seem to have no way to move a bunch of files from one to the other while preserving the nice unicode filenames I have. In specific, the files were created on the fc8 system. (a few thousand of them)

Re: Unicode Filenames in Archives

2008-06-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
SrinTuar wrote: > Ive also given tarballs a shot for this task, but sadly cygwin is > ascii-only. doesn't winzip, winrar et. al. support tarballs? I haven't used windows in years so I'm just guessing. Pádraig. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/li