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On Sunday 03 October 2004 11:06, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
which contains a text file with the filename in Chinese. Afain, in my partner's account, Ark displays this correctly, but in mine it doesn't.
To display UTF8 (8 bit UniCode) file names, you have to set environment variables. If you have LC_ALL=C (use default language for all LC_*) then you need to set: LANG="en_us.utf8".
This would normally be set (on Linux) in the script: "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh".
This is not UTF-8, but GB2312 encoding. It wold be better if your partner switches to a zh_CN.UTF-8 locale and uses this as default. Then the filenames would be in UTF-8 instead of GB2312 and you can display them on your english system if you use en_US.UTF-8 as locale.
I don't know which input method she uses, but chinput also works under UTF-8 locale.
for converting a bunch of filenames from GB2312 into UTF-8, take a look at the 'convmv' package in debian.
Obviously, what I said is not Chinese specific. It applies to any and all UTF-8 encoded file names. ISO-8859-1 is a subset of UTF-8 so Latin characters will display just the same.
And AFAIK, using UTF-8 is the only way to have file names of more than one language at a time.
-- JRT
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