accents in file names

[Daniel Leal]

Ok, Thanks a lot... I will read carefully these articles...

bye.

daniel



Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote:
>> is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented 
>> words. Like "filé.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file 
>> with an accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply 
>> disappear.
>
> UFS supports 8-bit characters except for "/" and "\0", but you also 
> need to run a terminal with UTF8 support and use a correct font to 
> view such things.  Perhaps this might give you some insight:
>
>   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
>
> Note that other file systems have more comprehensive Unicode support:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
>
> Perhaps I'm biased, but I've long been of the opinion that the Mac 
> platform with HFS+ has very good internationalization support.
>
> Regards,