@Hans
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Some of the latin character encodings support umlauts; e.g., ISO-8859-1.
Yeah but conversion is complex, because of the lack of 1 to 1 correspondance between uf8 and 8bit encodings, and / or potentialy missing characters.
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I knew that displaying UTF-8 was hard, but I didn't realize that it also prevents accessing files with "non-standard" characters. I thought that you'd still be able to read the files.
I'm pretty sure you can actually. DOS doesn't care about encoding as far as I understand it.
I just created a file name schön (o with umlaut incase that doesn't get encoded properly between here and the website
) on my linux box, coppied it by ftp to ram: with pftp and could open it fine.
The filename displayed as
's' 'c' 'h' 'captial A tilda' 'paragraph mark' 'n'
but was still accessable from the workbench, or the shell if I used name completion. I might have a challenge trying to type it though.
The bigger problem would happen if I create a file called schön on the amiga side and try and send that. That ends up as sch?n (invaid encoding) in the filemanager, and again I can access it with name completeion, but this time I really can't type it at all.