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Changing Your Filesystem's Locale?

Posted by Cliff on from the when-your-filenames-need-to-change-charset dept.

dybdahl asks: "Now that Red Hat has changed the default character set to be UTF-8, none of the existing filenames that included local characters like æ, ø, å, (Denmark) are handled correctly by Konqueror or can be seen correctly with "ls" in a shell. Is there a tool out there that can convert an ISO8859-1 ext3 filesystem to UTF-8?"

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  1. during install by Apreche · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been trying shitloads of distros lately (journal has more info). And despite other problems all of them have asked me what my locale is, what character sets I want to support, and all that kind of stuff. I must say if there is one thing that is more trouble in windows than in *nix it's internationalization. As with everything though, there is a config file somewhere and a package to install.

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