File name font problem (from Linux)

[euless]

Hi,

I recently immigrated to Win-10. Previously, I was using Linux.
After I transfer all my personal files from Linux to Win-10, I noticed all my Chinese files have wrong file names.
Instead of showing the Chinese character in the file names, it shows giberish characters.

My Win-10 does have Chinese fonts. I am able to use F2 to rename the Chinese files with Chinese characters. But there are hundreds of files, and I don't want to manually go to each one to fix the file names.

English filenames are all correct.

So, it seems like the Chinese file names got screwed up doing the immigration from Linux to Win-10.

Anyone ran into this problem before?

Thanks!

[dr_st]

Welcome to "Encoding Hell".

What exactly did you do? What do you mean by "transferred files from Linux to Windows"? Did you copy them from one partition to the other? Or to a different hard drive? Or do you just mount the same storage volume on different operating systems and file names show differently?

[euless]

Welcome to "Encoding Hell".

What exactly did you do? What do you mean by "transferred files from Linux to Windows"? Did you copy them from one partition to the other? Or to a different hard drive? Or do you just mount the same storage volume on different operating systems and file names show differently?

I didn't pay attention to the filenames when transferring the files over to Windows. I copied the entire user home folder.
I just did "cp -rp /home/euless /mnt/"

I did one of the following (can't recall which way)...

(1) While in Linux, I mounted a Fat32 USB Thumbdrive, and copied the files into it. Then in Win-10, copy the files from Thumbdrive to the Win-10's NTFS partition...or

(2) While in Linux, I mounted the Win-10's NTFS partition (using ntfs-3g and fuse), and then copy the files over to the mounted partition with "cp -rp".

I probably did (1).

[dr_st]

According to this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... file-names

NTFS uses Unicode for file names while FAT32 partitions use OEM character sets, which is more prone to causing confusion.

I would suggest you try a variation of (1), but use an NTFS-formatted thumb drive.