On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:59:47 +0200, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would like one of our server acting as a WebDAV server to allow
> French characters in filename , how to do so ?
I'm not sure which charset you will need, maybe ISO-8859-1 or -15
will do the job to allow accents and other things special to the
french language?
Set the correct LC_* variables via /etc/login.conf (elegant) or
via /etc/csh.cshrc (may be considered ugly, but works). For the last
case, it would be something like this:
setenv LC_ALL fr_FR.ISO8859-15
You can do it more "fine grained", if you wish to leave some of
the configurable things to the standard, for example:
setenv LC_COLLATE fr_FR.ISO8859-15
setenv LC_CTYPE fr_FR.ISO8859-15
setenv LC_MESSAGES en_US.ISO8859-15
setenv LC_MONETARY fr_FR.ISO8859-15
setenv LC_NUMERIC fr_FR.ISO8859-15
setenv LC_TIME fr_FR.ISO8859-15
I have a similar setting for the german language (de_DE) which
allows me to use Umlauts in file names.
BUT ATTENTION! I won't recommend anyone to use others but the
standard character set for filenames. It can lead to problems if
you're transfering files to a system which doesn't support
special characters from the french language or is unable to remap
them correctly. In my opinion, such characters should not be in
a filename, as well as whitespaces, ampersands, apostrophes,
doublequotes or similar things. I know it's possible, but it
sometimes can make things _really_ difficult.
I hope you won't run into such problems.
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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