Japanese Filenames

I have serveral files with japanese filnames on my harddisk (created with Windows XP). However when I open a folder containing files with japanese filenames with Konqueror it doesn't show the files at all. It only shows the files without japanese characters in them.
Is there a solution to this?

Yes. Don't use japanese filenames.

They aren't standard (? not sure), and nearly every tool will get troubles with them.
You can't share them to people, who don't have a japanese keybord, and most people don't even have a japanese font.

I'm not sure whether windows officially supports japanese characters in filenames, but it's really only useful, if you use these files only in your box.

[A-Z][a-z][0-9]_$. has been a standard in former times.

Rename or copy these files from windows.

You are a Japanese? And nearly every Japanese has a japanese keybord?

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Yes. Don't use japanese filenames.

They aren't standard (? not sure), and nearly every tool will get troubles with them.
You can't share them to people, who don't have a japanese keybord, and most people don't even have a japanese font.

I'm not sure whether windows officially supports japanese characters in filenames, but it's really only useful, if you use these files only in your box.

[A-Z][a-z][0-9]_$. has been a standard in former times.

Rename or copy these files from windows.

You are a Japanese? And nearly every Japanese has a japanese keybord?

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Windows XP supports japanese filnames, I'm not japanese but many files I download (for example with bittorrent) have japanese filenames. So that means if I change to a linux distro I won't be able to download those files anymore? Anyway I was hoping that the problem could be fixed somehow (and renaming the files is not an option).

Well - windows supports in some way german umlauts ('äöüÄÖÜ') and 'ß'.
But some tools for win/dos don't handle them correct. It's more a half-way support.

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Originally Posted by user unknown

Well - windows supports in some way german umlauts ('äöüÄÖÜ') and 'ß'.
But some tools for win/dos don't handle them correct. It's more a half-way support.

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I found a solution, I mounted the partitions with "-o iocharset=utf8", I haven't tried it under Knoppix though.

is utf8 just unicode ? I believe Windows use unicode for filename, at least for NT based system, not sure about the 98/ME etc.

I'm not sure about that, but I guess you need utf-16 for japanese filenames.

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I'm not sure about that, but I guess you need utf-16 for japanese filenames.

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Hmm, I'll try mounting with utf16 but man mount didn't have that as an option. Anyway to clearify, it actually works for me now, I can access the files with japanese filenames. The only problem is that they're named something like "£@$@£$" but that certainly beats not seeing them at all.

In kernel 2.6.5 I saw a lot of options about nls - (native language support) in the fs (filesystem) subtree, including nls_euc-jp.
I'm not sure what their duty is, but perhaps it's just your problem, and you have to recompile your kernel (or get a new one).

edit: sorry ignore :)