Re: non-ASCII characters in directory names
Re: non-ASCII characters in directory names
- Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in directory names
- From: Marc Dirix <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:21:21 +0100
Hi,
It all has to do with character encoding. If the filesystem records
the directoryname in UTF-8 and your Xterm is in latin1 or such these
characters are not converted right, and just displayed as their byte
values \314 etc.
The best advise is to keep far from directory names with non-ascii
characters,
as this gives any number of strange behaviour depending on the program.
Marc
On 09 Jan 2008, at 09:19, Peter Hilgers wrote:
Hi all,
I am rather new to all of this, so I hope my question is not too
stupid.
I have a problem with directory or file names which consist not only
of ASCII-characters (German umlaute ä ö ü for example). In xterm the
characters are displayed wrong and auto-completion with the tab-key
produces some backslashes with numbers instead (\314\210 instead of
ä), but still I can access them. Matlab, which requires X11 to run,
is totally unable to work with any of these files or directories,
however. It simply says that the directory does not exist.
Is there any solution to this?
I am glad for all hints you can give.
Peter _______________________________________________
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