character encoding: Windows XP vs Linux

[Carlo Orecchia]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Jean Morissette wrote:

> Your tip work well.  Thank for your help!
>
> Carlo Orecchia wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jean Morissette wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> When I transfert files from my girlfriend Windows XP computer to my Linux 
>>> FC2 computer, I cannot read the files names properly from my Linux. 
>>> Specials chacarters like é à è are remplaced with a white space.  Can you 
>>> help me or do I have to change my girlfriend? ;-)
>>> Thank
>>> Jean
>>> PS: My variable $LANG is equal to fr_CA.UTF-8.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>> 
>> and try using fr_CA only without UTF-8:
>> check if under SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en ...etc " you have also the 
>> fr_CA without .UTF-8
>> 
>> then change LANG to
>> 
>> LANG="fr_CA"
>> 
>> leave all the rest unchanged and then reboot
>> 
>> this is my file so you can understand better what i mean
>> 
>> LANG="en_US"
>> SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
>> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
>> 
>> 
>
>

nice .. you're welcome :))

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