"Alexandre B." <alexandre@linuxfr.eu> writes: > my /etc directory got corrupted few days ago, so I had to reinstall my > Debian system. I choosed to switch from sid to Etch. You must know that > my /home directory was not touched by the corrupt thing (it was on another > partition). > > But then, I couldn't see the correct names for directories in my /home. > So I decided to check for the locales set, and they were wrongly pointed to > fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8 > so I unticked it and choosed > fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 > like it was before. > > But now I still can't read filenames containing accentued character in > my /home, and it's even worse : I can't even type accentued character with > dead keys (I'm using us_intl keyboard map), all I got is 2 squares > like "??"... What is the output of "locale"? What are the contents of /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale? Which terminal are you using? VC, xterm, something else? What console font and charmap/ACM are you using? Is the console in UTF-8 mode? Does running unicode_stop or unicode_start fix things? > So my questions are : > 1. How can I know which encoding were used for those dir ? Try this script (dirent-encoding): --------------------8<------------------------ #!/bin/sh set -e cd $1 for file in *; do echo "Encoding of $file:" echo "$file" | file --mime - done --------------------8<------------------------ For example: $ /tmp/dirent-encoding /tmp/ [...] Encoding of zman8suFIu: /dev/stdin: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Encoding of zzzzß: /dev/stdin: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > 2. How can I fix this encoding pb for all my system, taking into > account I _don't_ want to use utf-8 but latin-9 ? Once you provide the above information, it will be easier to say. There are good reasons why Unicode/UTF-8 is being made the default encoding for etch. While Latin-[1-15] will continue to be a supported configuration, you should consider converting fully to UTF-8, because UTF-8 is the present and future on GNU/Linux, and having a standard universal character set makes a lot of sense. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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