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hi,
I have a file where in Dolphin and Konqueror the " ' " in "it's" shows up as a black diamond with a question mark inside and in bash it just shows up as a question mark. I successfully renamed the file using the mv command but dolphin and konqueror both gave an error that the file does not exist and showed the " ' " as e.g its instead of it's or Im for I'm
Can anyone suggest what could cause this and how to prevent it?
I have LOCALE="en_AU.utf8" set in my /etc/rc.conf
thanks
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"" is apparently the ISO-8859-1 representation of the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode replacement character which is used to represent invalid/unrepresentable characters.
Most likely the filename was encoded in Windows-1252 but interpreted as ISO-8859-1 when converted to Unicode. Character 146 is a single-quote in Windows-1252 but invalid in ISO-8859-1.
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Hello Fungyo!
Character encoding related thread too:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76582
Hope it has some usefull information for you.
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thanks for the reply. So it looks like, I haven't mis-configured, just got unlucky where I received a file which had been encoded with a non-standard encoding.
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Usually you can specify the enconding of the partitions you are mounting.
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thanks for all the info people. I will look into the issues some other time and post my findings here. So far I haven't had any other encoding issues to deal with and I have other things to do.
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