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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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