File names in Japanese / Chinese ~~ How?

[mulligan]

Anybody help me out with this?

When I upload directories or files to my server with a Japanese / Chinese name, like a directory called フォルクスワーゲン it shows up as either question marks or something like テスト or even sometimes ドッジ&#

File names also suffer from this, so if upload a jpeg, say it's called スパイカー.jpeg it turns up on the server as テスト or question marks

Bearing in mind I am not very technical can someone let me know in fairly easy-to-understand language how I 'fix' this and get my damn files to keep their original names?

Thanks

[jacksonm]

Hi,
If you are uploading to a linux server, then there is a good chance that the filesystem is not configured to support utf-8 filenames. I actually do not know how to configure this myself, but I do have one linux machine which just supports utf-8 filenames out of the box. It's running Ubuntu Dapper 6.06. I just tested creating chinese character filenames, no problems... I don't think any of my fedora linux machines support this, though. It would probably require less time to just use ubuntu than it would to try to study and fiddle with fedora/rhel/centos to get it working.

If you have too much trouble with this and really need it, then there is a possibility that I could change my web hosting platform from fedora to ubuntu. I am looking for some more customers, anyway :-)

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mike

[mulligan]

My host (Dreamhost) insist they support utf-8 filenames and they have done a few test uploads which appear to work for them but when I try it doesn't.
The support guy I spoke to has sites in Japanese and he say's he has no problems using their own hosting for this.

Maybe it's filezilla that's corrupting the filenames when uploading?

Their in-house WebFTP is not reliable to upload utf-8 filenames and this guy said he doesn't use it ... he use's something called gFTP but this runs on linux, whatever that means

[jacksonm]

Well, FTP is a 7-bit protocol. Windows stores filenames in UTF-16, and they need to be stored on the server in UTF-8. Put all those together and you start to see the problem.

This page might offer you some tips:

http://www.rankspirit.com/downloadduleng.php

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