>> 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. I think in my case some data was said to be in a particular encoding when in fact it may have been in another, and then pushed down to disk by the app through that wrong mask. > 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. 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"