On 8/4/06, Ming Hua <minghua@rice.edu> wrote:
You mentioned that you tried to use a USB flash drive to copy the files and it didn't work. I assume the flash drive is formatted in Windows (therefore should have some kind of FAT filesystem), in that case you can use Arne's advice above, use "mount -t vfat -o utf8 [device] [mount_point]" to mount your flash drive, and see if it helps.
Yes, I forgot. Mounting as utf8 for the usb works perfectly. I can see the chinese characters, etc. :) But I would also prefer a better solution. Will LI's advice be the best way? To convert gbk to utf8? But I can't view it even though my locale has gbk, so I dare not try it yet. I have many files that have weird characters, and dont' know what to do now. Regards, KwangErn