Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
>
> > Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is how to get those files to a different computer with
> > > windows. Anyone here has some experience with unicode filenames support
> of
> > > zip? tar?
> >
> > There isnothing special about "unicode filenames". Those are usual (e.g.
> valid,
> > made out of ASCII characters only) filenames created by a _reversible_
> mapping
> > method. Note the word reversible. As far as both, the source and the
> target,
> > vfat partitions are mounted under Linux with the uni_xlate option enabled,
> any
> > file transfer operation between the partitions will be fine. You can
> tar/untar,
> > export the FS of one of the computers to another via Samba or NFS, etc.
>
> This means that the other side (the tar/zip extractor, the samba/ftp/http
> server) will know that it should translate those filenames back to unicode
> strings.
I repeat you again (in addition to the two times above): the mapping is
reversible. The mapping is provided by the vfat _file_system_ kernel driver. Why
should it has to do something with the _file_-oriented tools?!
Regards,
Evgeny
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