Transfer from Linux to Windows 7 (Filename Encoding)

[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