Cannot access one's own files

[Willy K. Hamra]

Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 15:57, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On one particular Kubuntu 8.04 machine, Konqueror randomly does not
>> let it's user open folders with UTF-8 (non-ASCII) names.
> 
> Until I find a good answer to that, as well as making sure all the characters 
> in a file's/folder's name are displayed correctly, I carefully avoid names 
> including french accentuated characters (I also avoid spaces for a different 
> reason)
> Actually I dont remember having ever encountered the problem of unrecognised 
> names because of non ascii characters right away (on the machine the 
> files/folders were created) but only when transferring those to/from another 
> operating system (or even linux distro IIRC). [is is your case too?]	
> Therefore, since the problem is likely to developp unnoticed for a long time 
> it is important to give proper warning.
> When you have only a small number of cases I think the simplest thing to do is 
> to manually rename them.
> 
> Perry
> 
on my system, i usually get the weird charecters as squares in
konqueror, whereas arabic names are displayed as question letters! a
folder full of arabic names is basically a folder full of question
marks, very annoying, but thankfully, this only happens if some friend
inserted his/her cd, otherwise, i never use non-english names.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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