Re: mtools and Japanese characters
Hi,
I recently asked on debian-user (only, because I thought it wasn't
specific to Japanese, but for any language requiring a non-ASCI
character set)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200304/msg02455.html
> I have got a dual-boot machine with Debian Woody and the Japanese
> version of MS Windows 98 SE (not for myself), and I thought I could
> use mtools to back up the VFAT partitions in a little script that
> manipulates the archive bit. (I could not do that by simply mounting
> the VFAT partition, since there is no archive bit in struct stat.)
>
> The problem is that there are (lots of) files with Japanese characters
> in the file name (including the profiles of people with Japanese
> names). They appear all as underscores in mtools to me, like this.
The only (private) reply I got, referred me to
> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/mounting-vfat.html
which helped me seing Japanese characters in filenames after mounting,
but what I really want is to access the archive bit and the correct
file name at the same time (as well as the contents).
I have started a thread on the upstream list about this and found this
is indeed functionality missing in mtools. They may want to add it
once they understand the requirements.
Now I have a request. Could someone with knowledge of Japanese
character encoding (and an interest in getting mtools
Japanese-capable) please check I explained the problem correctly on
that list. The thread starts with
http://www.tux.org/mailman/private/mtools/2003-April/000029.html
but the archive is only open to subscribers to that list. (It is
fairly low traffic with only a couple of messages per month.) You can
subscribe from the project home page
http://mtools.linux.lu/
Feel free to reply there to correct or add to my explanations there.
I greatly appreciate any feedback at all (including private replies).
Thank you so much,
Marco Franzen
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