[tlug] Reading kanji file name from Mac OS X, without using Win XP

[David Riggs <dariggs@example.com>]

I have been struggling to read a CD of precious files with kanji names 
that was written on Mac OS X.

The file names always came out as a series of ? and _, no matter how I 
mounted it: -o iocharset=sjis, or utf-8 or euc-jp etc;  codepage=932 and 
 942.

Does anyone know how to do this on Linux?


I gaved in and tried it on Win XP: bingo, all the kanji file names are 
there, no problem. Plus the weird "dot" files (= Mac Resource Fork?), 
are gone.

I copied the dir tree onto a thumb drive and hence to my Debian/Sarge, 
mounted as iocharset=sjis, and all is swell.

I converted to my preferred utf-8 filenames and content encoding with:

convmv -r -f sjis -t utf-8 --notest * #file names
find * -type f -print | xargs recode sjis/cl..utf-8/ -f

(the data itself originally came from Win, hence the /cl in recode, 
thanks to TLUG for teaching me how to do this last year).

But, is there no way to do this all in Linux, without Windows as a 
bridge? I mean, its embarrassing!

David Riggs, Kyoto.