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mac · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 14

i find that i can type in hebrew, but i cannot see any hebrew named folder on my hd, it just doesnt appear, although its there. any suggestions?

Kazm · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Russia, Ufa

Possibly your file system FAT ?
See here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13783

mac · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 14

let me check it. if it is, what steps do i take?

Kazm · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Russia, Ufa

Here two moments:

1. If your save-file placed on FAT-partition it (partition) mounted without options for utf8. And with it we can not do anything...

2. Another case mount partition with this options:
mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,codepage=866 /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos

where codepage=866 is for MS russian codes of FAT. For arabic may be its another or do not need.

mac · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 14

thank you very very much.
can you spell out what exactly i do. it was a little too technical for me - how do i mount partitions - where do i enter the code?

Kazm · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Russia, Ufa

All commands in linux entered in console Smile

Here (in Puppy) are button on Desktop - rxvt.

And in Puppy you mounted your drives with script Pmount.
In PuppyRus (russian Puppy) we change this script (it is text file) with this mount options...

shiner · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

Mac

1. Open Console icon from your desktop
2. From command prompt type:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -o iocharset=utf8

The mount command should automaticlly identify your file system and utf8 parameter will allow you to see Hebrew file and folders.

Ran

mac · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 14

thanks a huge lot. i tried it but got back this
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on mnt/hda1 failed
so insteasd i tried pmount instead of mount, and that brought up the program, but it was still ???? instead of words. one thing i did notice was that in another partitition i have ubuntu, and there i was able to read the hebrew names of noth files and folders. maybe this is a clue that the problem is in reading ms windows fonts (hebrew). in fact i can create folders in hebrew and new files with hebrew filenames (although for some reason abiword wont let me save a file i'm working on with a hebrew filename) in puppy. so maybe its something other than hebrew support per-se

mac · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 14

thanks a huge lot. i tried it but got back this
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on mnt/hda1 failed
so insteasd i tried pmount instead of mount, and that brought up the program, but it was still ???? instead of words. one thing i did notice was that in another partitition i have ubuntu, and there i was able to read the hebrew names of noth files and folders. maybe this is a clue that the problem is in reading ms windows fonts (hebrew). in fact i can create folders in hebrew and new files with hebrew filenames (although for some reason abiword wont let me save a file i'm working on with a hebrew filename) in puppy. so maybe its something other than hebrew support per-se

mac · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 14

thanks a huge lot. i tried it but got back this
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on mnt/hda1 failed
so insteasd i tried pmount instead of mount, and that brought up the program, but it was still ???? instead of words. one thing i did notice was that in another partitition i have ubuntu, and there i was able to read the hebrew names of noth files and folders. maybe this is a clue that the problem is in reading ms windows fonts (hebrew). in fact i can create folders in hebrew and new files with hebrew filenames (although for some reason abiword wont let me save a file i'm working on with a hebrew filename) in puppy. so maybe its something other than hebrew support per-se

disciple · Posted: Tue 05 Aug 2008, 20:54 Post subject:

No, it will not use Windows fonts when looking at windows partitions, and not other partitions. It will always use the same fonts.

How is Puppy installed? A frugal install? Or running from CD?

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