Re: arabic windows filename

[Ahmad Al-Twajry <Unixy at Linux4Me dot com>]

I think you must enable Arabic codepage in kernel before doing anything


On Saturday 05 October 2002 01:08, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Mohammed Yousif wrote:
> > On Friday 04 October 2002 20:16, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > > You need to be using mlterm (in order to see the Arabic characters
> > > correctly, shapped and bidi'fied).  I also do 'ls -N' (otherwise a
> > > simple 'ls' shows question marks as you note).
> >
> > it didn't work for me for files created in Windows with arabic filenames.
>
> Chances are those filename are not in UTF-8 encoding :-)  I have no idea
> how to have then automatically converted.  I'm not sure if there is an
> application (middleware or something) that would be able to do that on
> the fly.  See if using 'iconv' wrapped into a script and pipe the output
> to "ls" or something would work.
>
> Interesting problem/point :-)
>
> Sorry.
>
>  - Nadim
>
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