On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:05:17 -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> >> As an aside, why does FreeBSD seem to default to the above locale
> >> instead of say, en_US.UTF-8 ?
> >
> > FreeBSD's file system does not default to any locale, as far as I
> > know. The system is "agnostic" to what the characters in the file
> > name mean or what symbol they should represent.
>
> Sure the fs is just binary, then viewed and written through
> the mask of the selected langauge layer I think.
Yes, that seems to be the case.
> > There isn't much you can do on file system level except renaming
> > the files: write a program that reads the file names according
> > to the preferred interpretation and write new names for them,
>
> I'll read more on language to see if I can reverse that and
> recover them or just replace with X's.
For X it's importat to have the required language variables
set and the fonts containing the characters which are represented.
> I was looking mostly for a tool that would show me what a
> filename or data looks like in hex, octal, and different
> selected encodings. Doing it by hand is slow. I'll check
> ports again.
The system already brings such a tool: od (octal, decimal,
hex, ASCII dump). For example:
% ls -w müslifraß.txt | od -h
0000000 fc6d 6c73 6669 6172 2edf 7874 0a74
This is on en_US.ISO8859-1 (german special characters will be
displayed properly as 1-bytes both in X and in console mode).
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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