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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 05:53:05
Message-Id: 358eca8f0605022235v321deb23t784ffd0ee4e3c4f3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters by Peter Ruskin
1 On 02/05/06, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:57, Alexander Skwar wrote:
3 > > Hello.
4 > >
5 > > On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters"
6 > > (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather
7 > > strange way.
8 > >
9 > > Eg.:
10 > > [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm,
11 > > Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg
12 > >
13 > > "Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schwarz-Weiß".
14 > >
15 > > What I don't understand is, why the "ß" has been (wrongly)
16 > > encoded as �:009f.
17 > >
18 > > Why is that happening?
19 > >
20 > Probably something with UTF-6. From gucharmap:
21 >
22 > ß
23 >
24 > U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
25 >
26 > General Character Properties
27 >
28 > Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase
29 >
30 > Various Useful Representations
31 >
32 > UTF-8: 0xC3 0x9F
33 > Octal escaped UTF-8: \303\237
34 > Decimal entity reference: &#223;
35 >
36 > Annotations and Cross References
37 >
38 > Alias names:
39 > • Eszett
40 >
41 > Notes:
42 > • German
43 > • uppercase is "SS"
44 > • in origin a ligature of U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S and
45 > U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S
46 >
47 > See also:
48 > • U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
49
50 Nope, its defintely not the Greek lower case beta.
51
52 The above assumes that you have already built in the correct system
53 language in your kernel and you have chosen an appropriate character
54 set for your console.
55
56 HTH.
57 --
58 Regards,
59 Mick
60
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