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Re: hebrew filenames in vfat



Are you using unicode fonts?
if I remmber right windows uses unicode to save file names as well..


Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

|  Hi all!
|  
|  This question has been asked here a while ago, but AFAIR it has not been
|  answered.
|  
|  I have a dual-boot pc: RH6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-22) and hebrew win98. All the
|  dos partitions are vfat (not fat32).
|  
|  I want to take a bounch of files with longhebrew names and copy them to a
|  different computer, as the windows can not currently boot.
|  
|  The problem is that I see all hebrew chars as "?".
|  from reading vfat.txt on kernel docs I understannd that vfat long
|  filenames are stored in unicode. When I use "utf8=true" I get some unicode
|  gibrish instead of the question marks. I did not figure out if there is
|  any way of using the "iocharset" option. There is the uni_xlate option,
|  but I want to somehow copy those files later to a different computer.
|  
|  If I use either "utf8" or "uni_xlate" - can I offer those files through
|  samba/ftp/http to a windows client that will read it as hebrew?
|  
|  Alternatively - is there a way to pack those files to tar/zip/whatever
|  archive that would be opened on a windows client and the file names be
|  read correctly?
|  
|  Thanks in advance
|  
|  --
|  Tzafrir Cohen
|  mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
|  http://techunix.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
|  
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