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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "David" == David Riggs <dariggs@example.com> writes:

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

Mac OS X sucks as far as internationalization of the file system
goes.  HFS+ is a bag on a kludge on a bump on a log in a hole in the
bottom of the sea.

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

iocharset and codepage are really only useful with Windows-based FAT
and ISO 9660 filesystems using UTF-16 as the encoding.  Nobody but
Microsoft can afford to pay the "not a C string" tax.  Everybody else
uses an ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding, usually UTF-8 or an
EUC variant.  My guess is that your problem is not Linux, its your
shell and stty settings.

    David> Does anyone know how to do this on Linux?

Try dired from Emacs.  I don't know about GNU-foo Emacs, but in XEmacs
21.5 you might want to M-x set-file-name-coding-system to utf-8, and
possibly M-x setenv LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8.  If you can get that to work,
then you know what the coding is and you can learn the appropriate
switches for your other UI components.


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