Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (41 mails)

[David Nettles <tetsuoni3000@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did the right tthing and backed up my SuSE 8.2 Pro system to an
external 160GB USB2.0 drive formatted with reiserfs.
My SuSE 8.2 Pro system was installed in Japanese.

I took my copy of SuSE 9.1 Pro and installed it.
I plugged in the USB2.0 drive, it mounted read-only, and proceeded to
try to recover my home directory only to find all of the Japanese
filenames were 100% unreadable-scramble (文字化け!!!). I realize that
SuSE 9.1 uses UTF-8 -- and I am really happy about that -- but I need to
recover the files from this backup.

I now have filenames that used to be "第８課のノート.txt" that now look
like "□□機■□.txt" or "?????????.txt" or any other unreadable malarky.

I did look into the utility *convmv* and tried it using a variety of
source encodings -- jis, jis7, sjis, shift_jis, iso-2022-jp. None
worked. :(
Any ideas? I am sure UTF-8 will be much better, but I really need to be
able to restore from this archive first.

Perhaps part of my problem is that I have no idea what the source
encoding would have been on the SuSE 8.2 Pro system. I did do the entire
installation in Japanese, so it kept the default for Japanese, I
imagine. I really want this new SuSE 9.1 environment to work.

-- 
David Nettles
web: http://www.miteyo.org
email: tetsuoni3000@xxxxxxxxxxx


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