linux and asian languages?


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i successfully mounted my windows NTFS drive in linux and when i try to access the mp3s store in it, only the ones with english names as file name appears. I have tons of mp3 in chinese, and the file names are in chinese too. Is ther a way so that i can see those files and access them...?

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Glad you asked! Google is your friend.

http://sophia.jpte.hu/linux/HOWTO/Chinese-...HOWTO.html#toc9

http://www.smipp.com/linuxlk.htm

This might help you get started. If you know how to recompile your kernel, go into the section for the "Codepages" where you select the language(s) you are using. Recompile the kernel w/ Chinese characters enabled which might help.

If you're trying to load/edit (whatever) the files in the console which is still in "English" you might have to escape some of the characters in the shell with a \ this is true for the *,!, *, and silmilar.

This is the best I can do. If you taught me some Chinese, maybe w/ my newfound ability I could help you out further :happy: ;) . Hope this helps!!!

Let me know how it works out. I'm curious as to how you did it. I did a paper in school last year about charcter encoding in Linux so I have some interest in the subject.

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ok, during the redhat installation, i enabled the chinese language. I can perfectly login into gnome using chinese language and it works fine. All the toolbar options and text appears in chinese. I can also view webpages in chinese. THe problem that i have is that i cannot see the files that are named in chinese. ......so i don't think i need to follow that chinese how-to cuz i already have chinese enabled. ....well, i'll seasrch harder and see what can i find...........

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When you installed RedHat I'm assuming that it asked for regional settings like when you Install Windows i.e. what country you live in, etc. I'm willing to bet all it does is enable some Chinese character recognition in Gnome or KDE but not in the console (I'm not 100% sure, but its more likely the case).

If this is true, it doesn't work in console mode since it depends on the kernel to "regional settings" (i.e. what languages to apply). Therefore, you would need to recompile the kernel w/ the appropriate Codepage (langague setting). If there's an e-mail address in the Chinese-How-To, try e-mailing that person.

If you go into the console have you tried an ls -la to list all the files. If the files show up you'll have to use " " double quotes around the file names in order for the shell to ignore the special characters so it doesn't think they're wildcards or variables - or you'd have to add a \ to each special character, not fun :wacko: :wacko:

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