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Singularity
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 9:36 am    Post subject: Multilingual filenames Reply with quote

Hello,

I usually have to work with files that are saved with filenames from different languages.

Usually the are:
English (Latin)
Slovak\Czech
Russian\Ukrainian (Cyrillic)

My locale is en_US.UTF-8

The problem is that all filenames different from Latin has unreadable characters (squares, questions marks).

F.e. Motivan�� list.pdf

How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where does the problem appear? Console or X? What if you list containing directories in Firefox or other internet browser?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

charles17 wrote:
Where does the problem appear? Console or X? What if you list containing directories in Firefox or other internet browser?


This problem appears in the terminal and DE. Now I am using KDE as my main DE.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Font could be problem if it does not contain those characters.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

P.Kosunen wrote:
Font could be problem if it does not contain those characters.


I've just edit my comment. I tried
Code:
ls
to check if these file names are handle correctly by terminal. They are don't, the same situation.

I played with fonts, doesn't help also.

Maybe Kernel Native Language Support?

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's because of the chosen language no?
Code:
touch téléphone
LANG=C ls
't'$'\303\251''l'$'\303\251''phone'
LANG=fr_FR ls
téléphone
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Singularity wrote:
I tried
Code:
ls
to check if these file names are handle correctly by terminal. They are don't, the same situation.

I played with fonts, doesn't help also.
Played with in what way?
Singularity wrote:
Maybe Kernel Native Language Support?

Any ideas?
If your kernel lacks it, try enabling it.

krinn wrote:
it's because of the chosen language no?
Code:
touch téléphone
LANG=C ls
't'$'\303\251''l'$'\303\251''phone'
LANG=fr_FR ls
téléphone
No.
Code:
$ touch téléphone
$ ls téléphone
téléphone
$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=C
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=C
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER=C
LC_NAME=C
LC_ADDRESS=C
LC_TELEPHONE=C
LC_MEASUREMENT=C
LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
LC_ALL=
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

desultory, you are showing that you create the file while you have support for the C language in your system.
It's different.

Look again:
Code:
touch téléphone
ls
téléphone
locale
LANG=fr_FR
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR"
LC_TIME="fr_FR"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR"
LC_NAME="fr_FR"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR"
LC_ALL=

but look when unsupported set is use
Code:
LANG=stupidtest ls
't'$'\303\251''l'$'\303\251''phone'

It display unicode values, with my consolefont i could display cyrillic set myself (default one in gentoo) and i have only utf-8 (french) support.
Look (taken from here)
Code:
touch "$(echo -e "\u0448\040A\u0470")"
ls -la
total 2404
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 24 oct.  11:34  .
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 2453504 24 oct.  11:09  ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       0 24 oct.  11:34  téléphone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       0 24 oct.  11:33 'ш AѰ'
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

krinn wrote:
desultory, you are showing that you create the file while you have support for the C language in your system.
It's different.
While you are correct in noting that there was a mistake in that post, you are incorrect as to what the mistake was. The C locale is not UTF aware, but my having left LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 in effect provided that awareness to the resultant locale set.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have enable language support in Kernel, but nothing change.

Please see below my locale settings.

Code:
eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
  [1]   C
  [2]   POSIX
  [3]   de_DE.iso885915@euro
  [4]   de_DE@euro
  [5]   en_GB
  [6]   en_GB.iso88591
  [7]   en_GB.utf8 *
  [8]   en_US
  [9]   en_US.iso88591
  [10]  en_US.utf8
  [11]  ru_RU
  [12]  ru_RU.cp1251
  [13]  ru_RU.iso88595
  [14]  ru_RU.koi8r
  [15]  ru_RU.utf8
  [16]  russian
  [17]  sk_SK
  [18]  sk_SK.iso88592
  [19]  sk_SK.utf8
  [20]  slovak
  [21]  uk_UA
  [22]  uk_UA.koi8u
  [23]  uk_UA.utf8
  [ ]   (free form)


Code:
locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

and
Code:
02locale
LC_COLLATE="C"
LANG="en_GB.utf8"


I need to leave the whole system including massages, date format etc. in English but be able to work with non-English file names.

What should i change in configuration?

Thanks for support
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Singularity wrote:
What should i change in configuration?
desultory wrote:
The C locale is not UTF aware, but my having left LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 in effect provided that awareness to the resultant locale set.
Using en_GB.utf8 should have essentially identical effect, however your problem is not, at least directly, simply that.

For whatever reason your running shell is using the C locale for everything except LC_ALL, even LANG which is explicitly set to en_GB.utf8. Given the blank LC_ALL, this appears to be either deliberate, and possibly induced by attempting to solve your initial problem, or a result of having changed the system locale settings without updating your running shell(s). In short, given bash as your running shell, source ~/.bashrc and try the "téléphone" test again.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These filenames may be encoded with a different encoding than your system encoding. Some features are different depending on the environment.

Singularity wrote:
I usually have to work with files that are saved with filenames from different languages.


You may be interested by app-text/conmv to convert a filename encoding. I do not know how the things are designed internally.

Linux NLS parameter wrote:
The default NLS used when mounting file system. Note, that this is the NLS used by your console, not the NLS used by a specific file system (if different) to store data (filenames) on a disk.


I have read the encoding is defined by the current locale so I suppose the keyboard encoding is associated with the character set defined by the current locale.

N.B: Oddly, I modified the keyboard mapping from azerty to dvorak-r, edited some files and reinitialized the keymap but the control sequences are still interpreted using the dvorak keymap.
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