UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello everyone,

I use Samba to copy mp3 files to my Red Hat 8.0 box so I can randomize them through a playlist. When I copy:

Sigur Rós-Nýja Lagið.mp3

It shows in the mapped drive on Windows as:

Sigur Rós-N_ja Lagi_.mp3

And via Putty as:

Sigur R(grayed box)s-N_ja Lagi_.mp3

What is going on here? Is there a setting I am missing that is specific to Unix or Samba?

Thanks everyone.

Those are locale problems on the unix box. Samba doesn't know about your language font so it substitutes characters it does know.

try man locale

Code:

locale -a

shows all avaiable locale settings for the unix system.

Usually you need to have something like a UTF-8 locale setup (C.utf8 or maybe univ.utf8) as a system-wide locale on the unix server to support a variety of languages. Windows usually handles most of that problem with extended TT fonts.

You will have to restart Samba after you change settings.