Re: [tlug] Japanese Charactersets: In the commandline and in Samba(aka. mounting a japanese windows drive)

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:12 +0900, David Bennett wrote:
> (2) the biggie.
> 
> I am trying to mount a Windows XP drive with many Japanese filenames
> via Samba. I can mount it fine, but no matter what codepage and
> iochartset I seem to choose, when I cd into the directory (command
> line) everything comes out as question marks. This could be because
> Japanese characters are not displaying in the command line, but not
> all of the files are being read (some of the kanji only files are
> skipped entirely) so I have a feeling the problem is a little more
> serious.
use cifs it is far superior to smb.  If ls doesn't recognize the
encoding it will escape any control characters in the filenames. This
usually results in all the Japanese characters appearing as question
marks. You can check this by setting your console to display utf8 and
running ls --show-control-chars.  Its not the solution but it might help
you work out what is happening.

Edward