Transfer from Linux to Windows 7 (Filename Encoding)

[Jorge Fábregas]

Hello everyone,

I need to transfer some files (with spanish accented characters on their
name) from Linux (where I use iso-8859-1) to Windows 7 but I'm having
problems at the Windows 7 side.  The accented characters look bad.

I tried using convmv on a copy of these files on my machine with
different targets: cp1252, utf8 and utf16 but none of these worked.  For
cp1252 it tells me there's no need for conversion.  For the utf8 target,
it does the conversion but I still don't see the special characters
properly displayed.  For utf16 I get a warning about possible data loss.

I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,
Jorge

p.d. I create a tar on Linux and then use 7zip on the Windows side to
extract the contents.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 14:21 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>  Hello everyone,
>  
>  I need to transfer some files (with spanish accented characters on their
>  name) from Linux (where I use iso-8859-1) to Windows 7 but I'm having
>  problems at the Windows 7 side.  The accented characters look bad.
>  
>  I tried using convmv on a copy of these files on my machine with
>  different targets: cp1252, utf8 and utf16 but none of these worked.  For
>  cp1252 it tells me there's no need for conversion.  For the utf8 target,
>  it does the conversion but I still don't see the special characters
>  properly displayed.  For utf16 I get a warning about possible data loss.
>  
>  I'd appreciate any help.
>  
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Jorge
>  
>  p.d. I create a tar on Linux and then use 7zip on the Windows side to
>  extract the contents. 
If you run "tar tv" on the tar file on the Linux side, are the filenames
displayed correctly? If not, the problem could be with tar (maybe your
locale settings?). Otherwise, it sounds like the problem is on the
Windows side.

poc

poc

[Jorge Fábregas]

On 01/31/2012 02:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  If you run "tar tv" on the tar file on the Linux side, are
> the filenames
>  displayed correctly? If not, the problem could be with tar (maybe your
>  locale settings?). Otherwise, it sounds like the problem is on the
>  Windows side. 
Hi Patrick,

I performed "tar -tvf myfile.tar" and I see the files just as fine.
However, now that you mentioned tar I did a quick test over the nework
and I see the files perfectly fine on Win7 !  I also burned some files
on a CD-R (using UDF) and I also could restore the files perfectly fine!
 It seems Windows still uses cp1252 and my problems were all caused by
TARing the files and extracting them with 7zip.

Thanks for the tip Patrick.

Best regards,
Jorge

[Jorge Fábregas]

On 01/31/2012 02:21 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>  I need to transfer some files (with spanish accented characters on
> their
>  name) from Linux (where I use iso-8859-1) to Windows 7 but I'm having
>  problems at the Windows 7 side 
I just tried copying the files to "Windows XP" and I see the files
perfectly fine (without any conversion).  It seems XP used cp1252 (aka
windows-1252) where there's almost a one to one relationship with
iso-8859-1 (I think it just differs on some non-printable characters)
but apparently Win7 uses UTF16 :(

--
Jorge