I'm trying to convert my 11 year old son (and myself) from Windows to Puppy.
One thing I like about Puppy is that it can readily access my files stored by XP on an NTFS partition. My son's files are in a folder that contains accented characters (eg: "ó" or "ő"). So all his music and pictures are invisible.
Now it is not that simple to just rename his main folder in XP because our language (Hungarian) is full of accented characters. Too many of our file names contain some of these special characters.
Any ideas?
Puppy can't access NTFS filenames with accented characters
like this? screenshot:
http://i18.tinypic.com/4e1afx2.png
http://i18.tinypic.com/4e1afx2.png
no, those files and folders are in /tmp, which is a tmpfs file system (on my machine ... i remount /tmp as a tmpfs file system) ... i do not have any NTFS partitions, i have WinXP installed on a fat32 partition
i would think there should be some way of mounting an NTFS partition so that the characters are displayed correctly ... maybe something like this:
mount -t ntfs -o utf8 /dev/hda1 /mnt/data
or maybe:
mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf-8 /dev/hda1 /mnt/data
i do not have any ntfs partitions, so i can not test it
by the way, you might need to use mount-FULL instead of mount
if you find mount options that work, you can write a simple script to mount/unmount the drives ... or you can configure /etc/fstab and the partitions can be mounted automatically when Puppy boots, or Rox will automatically mount and unmount the partitions for you
i would think there should be some way of mounting an NTFS partition so that the characters are displayed correctly ... maybe something like this:
mount -t ntfs -o utf8 /dev/hda1 /mnt/data
or maybe:
mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf-8 /dev/hda1 /mnt/data
i do not have any ntfs partitions, so i can not test it
by the way, you might need to use mount-FULL instead of mount
if you find mount options that work, you can write a simple script to mount/unmount the drives ... or you can configure /etc/fstab and the partitions can be mounted automatically when Puppy boots, or Rox will automatically mount and unmount the partitions for you
I had such problems in Muppy mounting XP-folders with samba.
At least trying to write filenames with äöü on a shared XP-drive.
Muppy uses UTF-locales by default.
Also Rox 2.5 uses UTF.
But windows does not.
You might try a filemanager, that does not support UTF, like XFE:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1922
I had no time yet to sort out, how far settings must be changed, that everything harmonizes.
I think Rox 1.2 (without UTF) could display special chars correct, as it used Iso-charsets.
Mark
At least trying to write filenames with äöü on a shared XP-drive.
Muppy uses UTF-locales by default.
Also Rox 2.5 uses UTF.
But windows does not.
You might try a filemanager, that does not support UTF, like XFE:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1922
I had no time yet to sort out, how far settings must be changed, that everything harmonizes.
I think Rox 1.2 (without UTF) could display special chars correct, as it used Iso-charsets.
Mark