Ubuntu filename encoding - UTF8?

[Alexander Kirillov]

Joaquim Nobre Wrote: 
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> I'm having the same problem, but with portuguese characters (I'm
> brazilian) like ç and "special" vowels. I'm also running Hoary.
> 
> Gábor Iglói wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > How does Ubuntu handle characters in filenames? Does it use UTF-8?
> > 
> > I'm Hungarian so I use the Hungarian localised Ubuntu. I have some
> > problems with filenames containing áé?ú?óüöí "special" (don't know
> > what they are called in Engish) characters. My filesystems are vfat
> > (communicating with an English Windows XP) and an ext3. I have some
> > files/folders containing "special" characters and Nautilus calles
> them
> > for example "n?vtelen mappa (invalid encoding)" (should be "névtelen
> > mappa" meaning New Folder in Hungarian). But if I create a NEW New
> > Folder it is called as it should be "névtelen mappa". So my old files
> > or files created with XP display incorrectly but files/folders
> created
> > by Ubuntu are correct. Also, with another Linux distribution I need
> to
> > mount my vfat with -o iocharset=iso8859-2 option to handle my
> > "special" characters correctly. But this doesn't work with Ubuntu
> > ("special" characters won't display correctly on old files).
> > 
> > My distrib is Hoary Hedgehog BTW.
> > 
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Hoary does use UTF8 by default. Check output of locale command: if it
shows something like 

hu.UTF8, you know your locale is utf8.


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Alexander Kirillov