[PLUG] Unicode file names - Are they same on Windows and Linux

[G Karunakar]

On 7/19/06, Udayraj <udayrajb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello List
> Please excuse for the long post, but read carefully.
>
> Situation:
> I use a dual boot system, Windows 2003 + Open Suse 10.1 in my
> Institute. I have Indic support installed in both, and use a common
> partition(ext3) in windows & linux to store documents.
>
> Problem:
> When I name a file in marathi under linux it's name does not apper in
> marathi under windows, instead it shows some other characters or
> simply ?????.txt, ______.doc. Linux too refuses to recognize the
> windows file names in marathi. Sometimes I can not copy, use or delete
> files from the OS under which I have not created them.
>
> Interesting thing is that both OSs recognize the Unicode content
> created in the either OS properly, But not file/folder names or ID3
> tags in mp3 files ( Metadata ? )
>
> Question:
> Are there two unicode standards for indic? If no what's the problem?
> How do I solve it?



Windows uses  native 16bit unicode, ie each char is 2bytes. Linux uses UTF-8
format of unicode to be ascii compatible ( see man  unicode / utf8 ).
 Though i think there should be a way in linux to read windows unicode
filenames properly & doubt if windows will read utf-8 file names.

Karunakar