Re: arabic windows filename

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- 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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