From: Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:52:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b678c5bc-301a-41c8-aa53-6c7543ff92f0@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32f571c7-de3f-53da-185a-9cdfa0797a93@gmail.com>
On 29/10/2024 15:18, Dale wrote:
> Some of the other characters I run into look like this.
>
>
> ����
As I understand it, these are typically characters your display doesn't
know how to display. Eg Unicode for which it doesn't have a glyph. Or
(unlikely nowadays) 8-bit Latin characters when all you've got is 7-bit
Ascii.
Bear in mind as far as linux is concerned, a file name is a string of
bytes ending in null, with a couple of forbidden characters eg "/". So
if your shell or whatever doesn't know how to display the bytes, that's
what it does.
Cheers,
Wol
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-03 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-29 15:18 [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters Dale
2024-10-29 15:47 ` Michael
2024-10-29 16:18 ` Dale
2024-10-29 16:40 ` Michael
2024-10-29 18:05 ` Dale
2024-10-30 3:05 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-10-30 17:25 ` Dale
2024-11-01 2:25 ` Andrew Lowe
2024-11-01 14:16 ` Jack Ostroff
2024-11-01 16:02 ` Dale
2024-11-03 23:52 ` Wol [this message]
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