On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote on 2003-07-25:
>
> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> >
> > > Shlomi Fish wrote on 2003-07-25:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I have some Hebrew filenames on my Windows partitions. I need to export
> > > > them to Samba,so I set the mount options to:
> > > >
> > > > <<<
> > > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-8,codepage=862,umask=022 0 0
> > > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-8,codepage=862,umask=022 0 0
> > > > >>>
> > > >
> > > > Now, I want Konqueror to display them as Hebrew filenames. However at the
> > > > moment it displays them in iso8859-1. Please don't tell me about mounting
> > > > the vfatpartitions as utf8, and using KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES - it is not an
> > > > option (due to the Samba sharing).
> > > >
> > > Fisrt, why is it not an option ;-?Can't samba be told to recode the
> > > names from UTF-8 to iso8859-8?I'm not updated on samba 3.0 but AFAIK
> > > it should support it well, perhaps even samba 2 will be OK.
> > >
> >
> > In that case, it would be an option.
> >
> The best option IMHO.If you want to have hebrew filenames, you need
> to encode them in some way and you need to match it to your unix
> locale.In the long term everybody will migrate to UTF-8 so the
> sooner the better...
>
> Some googling showed me that only samba >=3.0 supports UTF-8.
>
Hmmm... I had a hard time upgrading to Samba 3.0 last time I tried (the
RPM building process was broken). I'd rather not upgrade again.
> > > Second, konqueror should show files according to the current locale.
> > > What does ``locale`` show you currently?
> >
> > $ locale
> > LANG=en_US
> > LC_CTYPE=en_US
> > ...
> >
> This surely can't work.In this locale hebrew characters have no
> representation.
>
> > > Try exporting ``LANG=he_IL`` and/or ``LC_CTYPE=he_IL`` and check
> > > how it works with konqueror.
> > >
> >
> > With either env var or both set it still does not display the filenames
> > withHebrew characters.
> >
> Perhaps you don't have the he_IL locale.What distro do you have?
I have Mandrake 9.1.
> Someone who knows how to generate locales please chime in here ;-).
>
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> --
> Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> If I don't hack on it, who will?And if I don't GPL it, what am I?
> And if it itches, why not now?[With apologies to Hillel ;]
>
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