[gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

[gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello.

On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters"
(eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather strange
way.

Eg.:
[2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm, Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg

"Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schwarz-Weiß".

What I don't understand is, why the "ß" has been (wrongly) encoded
as �:009f.

Why is that happening?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:57, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters"
> (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather
> strange way.
>
> Eg.:
> [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm,
> Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg
>
> "Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schwarz-Weiß".
>
> What I don't understand is, why the "ß" has been (wrongly)
> encoded as �:009f.
>
> Why is that happening?
>
Probably something with UTF-6.  From gucharmap:

ß

U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

General Character Properties

Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase

Various Useful Representations

UTF-8: 0xC3 0x9F
Octal escaped UTF-8: \303\237
Decimal entity reference: ß

Annotations and Cross References

Alias names:
 • Eszett

Notes:
 • German
 • uppercase is "SS"
 • in origin a ligature of U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S and 
U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S

See also:
 • U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

[Mick]

On 02/05/06, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:57, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters"
> > (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather
> > strange way.
> >
> > Eg.:
> > [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm,
> > Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg
> >
> > "Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schwarz-Weiß".
> >
> > What I don't understand is, why the "ß" has been (wrongly)
> > encoded as �:009f.
> >
> > Why is that happening?
> >
> Probably something with UTF-6.  From gucharmap:
>
> ß
>
> U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
>
> General Character Properties
>
> Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase
>
> Various Useful Representations
>
> UTF-8: 0xC3 0x9F
> Octal escaped UTF-8: \303\237
> Decimal entity reference: &#223;
>
> Annotations and Cross References
>
> Alias names:
>  • Eszett
>
> Notes:
>  • German
>  • uppercase is "SS"
>  • in origin a ligature of U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S and
> U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S
>
> See also:
>  • U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA

Nope, its defintely not the Greek lower case beta.

The above assumes that you have already built in the correct system
language in your kernel and you have chosen an appropriate character
set for your console.

HTH.
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Mick

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