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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list