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jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

I am a newbie from thailand .
Problem in Puppy 5.2
When i add tahoma ttf in /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF. I can read thai language from Firefox browser but can not read file name from removable device < /mnt/sdb1 > that show ¨????????.doc¨

Please help me , thanks .

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Hi jimmytom

Welcome to the kennels Cool

It is just removable drives or all filer windows?

you could try changing the gtk+ font...

go to-

PuppyMenu > Desktop > Desktop Setting > JWM configuration

then select desktop tab, and click GTK+ theme followed by Font

select your font

click Okay, Okay and restart JWM.

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http://puppylinux.org/wikka/jwm

Flash · Posted: Fri 11 May 2012, 17:00 Post subject:

Jimmytom, just so I'm clear, do you mean that files ending in .doc are not shown while other files are shown?

jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

Thanks for your kinds.
Dear darkcity . I go to your suggestion but no change in ???? file name.

Dear Flash.
All files that saved in thai name in /mnt/sdb1 shown
????.doc
????._files
????.gif
????.htm

but in /mnt/sda 1 i can read thai - name files.
< no problem >

Makoto · Posted: Sat 12 May 2012, 00:50 Post subject:

You'll probably need a Unicode-compatible font installed, at least. (I don't know if you can change codepage/location in Puppy 5, but that may not be necessary... we'll see.)
If you have a Windows system, copy the file arialuni.ttf from Windows' fonts directory to the font directory on your Puppy 5 system. And, to be on the safe side, restart the X server. Do the filenames show properly?

Alternately, you can find other Unicode TTFs on the net (a number of which aren't commercial like Microsoft's arialuni, and can be downloaded freely), but I don't have any examples handy. Neutral

Flash · Posted: Sat 12 May 2012, 01:04 Post subject:

If you copy one of the files that doesn't show correctly in sdb1, from sdb1 to sda1, does it show correctly in sda1?

jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

Dear Flash
When i copy ???.doc from /mnt/sdb1 to /mnt/sda 5 , it show ???.doc.

When i copy <readable - thai - font > file from
/mnt/sda 5 to /mnt/sdb1 , it show <readable - thai - font > file.

When i insert other removable device. /mnt/sdc1 show ???.doc , ????.pdf.

Flash · Posted: Sun 13 May 2012, 08:07 Post subject:

Was Windows involved in creating or writing any of the files that are in sda5 or sdb1? I am just trying to bring out information so that someone who knows more than I do can figure out what is going on. Smile

jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

Dear Makoto
In this picture, is it correct directory ?

jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

In PUPPY LINUX 4.2
Thai linux user solved this problem by
1..Go to /usr/local/bin/
2.Edit *drive all *file
line 170 >>mount -t vfat -o shortname=mixed,quiet,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 /dev/$ONEDRVNAME /mnt/$ONEDRVNAME #v411

But in PUPPY 5.2.2
We can*t solve that.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Hi JimmyTom

With Puppy anything is possible ; -)

Puppy Lucid also has file
/usr/local/bin/all_drive

open in geany and search for "mount -t vfat"

in Polarpup 005 its on line 377

jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

thanks darkcity .
I edit /usr/local/bin/all_drive
< in my puppy , it*s on line 327 >

jimmytom · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 9

When i reboot computer.
Unreadable - thai -name files are not changed.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

I think this it the route to the solution, but I would need to study the all_drives file. Shinobar would probably know.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

at a guess you need to copy the thai fonts out of the computer that created the files into puppy font folder. else look on the web or even this forum for more thai fonts