On Monday 13 March 2006 23:35, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > That's why I chose utf8 over > > > ISO8859-1. Since it works, it may be best to stick with it. > > If i recall correctly utf-8 is an effort of making a uniform way of > representing English and Non-English as well . I don't have the > slightest idea whether it is a standard yet or not . I don't know also > whether for example mount will something like that ( sticking with the > utf-8 character set ) . To that effect have you tried to mount a > partition be it fat32/ntfs/ext2/ext3/xfs ( choose one ) with the > utf-8 character set ? > I can't give a categoric answer. I think to be certain I would have to have a disk or partition where the files had all been created after I converted to utf8. I may have time to do some experimentation later today. All I can say at the moment is that the disks I burned are read easily enough by XP - but I don't think that it is a good enough test. > In other words am uncertain whether there will be compatibility > problems with other applications or not if you stick with the > utf-8 . Certainly is a solution though . > > > Let me know whether your experiments with Greek filenames are successful? > > Well it's getting kind of late around here ( i don't know about where > you are but here is almost 1:30 am in the morning , so the experiment > will have to wait until tonight . I will try with both ISO8859-7 and > utf-8 and see how it goes . Afterwards i will post the results > Look foward to seeing the results. BTW, I'm in the UK, and it looks as though we are 2 hours behind you. Anne > > Kind Regards, > Kostas
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