Add a new FAQ entry explaining why non-English characters on CDs might
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.158 2001/03/16 01:35:30 dd Exp $</pubdate>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.159 2001/03/17 01:33:47 dd Exp $</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<copyright>
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<year>1995</year>
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<year>1995</year>
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</qandaentry>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="cdrom-unicode-filenames">
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<para>When I mount a CDROM, all non-English characters in
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filenames show up as <quote>?</quote>.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Most likely your CDROM uses the <quote>Joilet</quote>
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extention for storing information about files and directories.
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This extension specifies that all filenames are stored using
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Unicode two-byte characters. Currently, efforts are under way
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to introduce a generic Unicode interface into the FreeBSD
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kernel, but since that isn't ready yet, the CD9660 driver does
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not have the ability to decode the characters in the
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filenames.</para>
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<para>As a temporary solution, starting with FreeBSD 4.3, a
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special hook has been added into the CD9660 driver to allow the
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user to load an appropriate conversion table on the fly.
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Modules for some of the common encodings are available via the
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<filename>sysutils/cd9660_unicode</filename> port.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="printer-slow">
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<question id="printer-slow">
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<para>My printer is ridiculously slow. What can I do ?</para>
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<para>My printer is ridiculously slow. What can I do ?</para>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.158 2001/03/16 01:35:30 dd Exp $</pubdate>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.159 2001/03/17 01:33:47 dd Exp $</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<copyright>
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<year>1995</year>
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<year>1995</year>
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</answer>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="cdrom-unicode-filenames">
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<para>When I mount a CDROM, all non-English characters in
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filenames show up as <quote>?</quote>.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Most likely your CDROM uses the <quote>Joilet</quote>
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extention for storing information about files and directories.
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This extension specifies that all filenames are stored using
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Unicode two-byte characters. Currently, efforts are under way
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to introduce a generic Unicode interface into the FreeBSD
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kernel, but since that isn't ready yet, the CD9660 driver does
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not have the ability to decode the characters in the
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filenames.</para>
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<para>As a temporary solution, starting with FreeBSD 4.3, a
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special hook has been added into the CD9660 driver to allow the
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user to load an appropriate conversion table on the fly.
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Modules for some of the common encodings are available via the
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<filename>sysutils/cd9660_unicode</filename> port.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="printer-slow">
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<question id="printer-slow">
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<para>My printer is ridiculously slow. What can I do ?</para>
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<para>My printer is ridiculously slow. What can I do ?</para>
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