Problem copying files

[Ian Malone]

Tor Harald Thorland <linux at mis.no> wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > I have tried to copy some files with some norwegian characters in the
 > file name.
 > FC 2 is not happy with them and keeps complaining that it cannot write
 > them.. What can I do to make FC2 accept norwegian characters in
 > filenames?

Don't know if I can help, but the people who can probably need to know
more:

Are you doing this from the command line or a filemanager?

Do you have the right permissions?  If creating the new file, do you
have write permission for the directory you're copying to?  Does the
destination file already exist read-only?  (check by ls -lh)
Do you have enough free space (df -h)?

What does
$echo $LANG
say?  (Given FC2, hopefully (something).UTF-8 )

What file systems are you copying to and from (at the very least
the output of mount would be useful)?

What are the names of the files in question?  I managed:

$ touch Skarphéðinn
$ cp Skarphéðinn /tmp
$ ls /tmp/Skarphéðinn
/tmp/Skarphéðinn

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imalone