Have you tried the Unicode HOWTO?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO.html

Some HOWTOs are well written and some are not but this may give you some 
ideas or be a place to start.

Andrei Bazhgin wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am having some problems with using unicode (Russian) filenames on my Linux
> workstation and my FreeBSD server.
> 
> I use grip to rip and encode all my CDs, and some of them are Russian. Now, when
> grip gets the CD information of off freedb.org it comes up with unicode names
> for the tracks and other ID3 information.
> 
> Using this information, it creates filenames that have the author and track name
> in them. Here is the dilema:
> 
> When I view files, I get names like `:2564?:2564?' (Rissian F and ld) and cannon
> access them. If I use scp to upload these files to my FreeBSD server, they show
> up as ????? in the console and as other cryptic names in the Samba share.
> 
> If I go to my fathers PC that has native Russian support on Windows XP, and I
> create a Russian char-set folder in a Samba share then I can see it in the Saba share (and
> read/write to it) but it still shows up as `:2564?:2564?' if I mount the Samba
> share on Linux (Mandrake 9.2). I am using Windows XP SP1, FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE,
> and Linux (2.4.22-10mdk).
> 
> Strange.
> 
> Could someone please advise me on what to do about this please? Sorry if this is
> extremely n00b, but I am not very familular to unicode and all that jazz.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 

-- 
Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff


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