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217 Name: Anonymous : 2007-11-26 15:12 ID:Heaven

>>207
My first thought was that your linux box uses UTF-8, but your Windows box might use UCS2 encoded Unicode in filenames. But I don't know much about Windows, so that might not be it.

A pointer: Check Wikipedia for "mojibake", and click around from there.

Maybe someone here can help if you post exactly what kind of gibberish you get. (both in the case of zipped files and copied files)

Listing file names with ls | hexdump -C might be useful to see what is going on. UTF-8 encoded filenames have three bytes per (kanji/kana) character, and UCS2 would have two, for example.

Also, are the filenames OK if you copy the files back to the Windows box?

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