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How to allow Japanese symbols in file names on Linux?

I'm on kubuntu 22.04. I downloaded a rar archive, which is a scanned Japanese book. It's got folders in it, some of these folders have another layer of folders, others just have files. Many of these files have identical names. The folders have names in Japanese. When I open it with ark, I can see the structure, the folders (Japanese characters are replaced with ???s in folder names) and the files. But I can't extract shit, the process hangs for a time then a window pops up "blah blah failed to extract, check available space", I have space.

Now when I try to unrar -- unrar has a command, 'e', that doesn't respect the folder structure and dumps every file in the current folder, flat -- I can get the files out, until the filenames start repeating. Unrar won't autorename, I'd have to input every name variation manually, which is a shitton of work. Plus I would like to preserve the folder structure.
If I try to unrar with 'x', it says the following:
Code:
Creating    book                                 OK
Creating    book/[?????] ????? ?01?              OK
Cannot create book/[?????] ????? ?01?/001.jpg
Is a directory
Directory with such name already exists

Would you like to replace the existing file book/[?????] ????? ?01?/002.jpg
4096 bytes, modified on 2023-04-26 21:17
with a new one
16835 bytes, modified on 2023-04-06 09:35
In the end it creates the root folder, `book`, and one subfolder named `[`. No files are extracted.
The file system is ext4.

wat do?
 
How to allow Japanese symbols in file names on Linux?

I'm on kubuntu 22.04. I downloaded a rar archive, which is a scanned Japanese book. It's got folders in it, some of these folders have another layer of folders, others just have files. Many of these files have identical names. The folders have names in Japanese. When I open it with ark, I can see the structure, the folders (Japanese characters are replaced with ???s in folder names) and the files. But I can't extract shit, the process hangs for a time then a window pops up "blah blah failed to extract, check available space", I have space.

Now when I try to unrar -- unrar has a command, 'e', that doesn't respect the folder structure and dumps every file in the current folder, flat -- I can get the files out, until the filenames start repeating. Unrar won't autorename, I'd have to input every name variation manually, which is a shitton of work. Plus I would like to preserve the folder structure.
If I try to unrar with 'x', it says the following:
Code:
Creating    book                                 OK
Creating    book/[?????] ????? ?01?              OK
Cannot create book/[?????] ????? ?01?/001.jpg
Is a directory
Directory with such name already exists

Would you like to replace the existing file book/[?????] ????? ?01?/002.jpg
4096 bytes, modified on 2023-04-26 21:17
with a new one
16835 bytes, modified on 2023-04-06 09:35
In the end it creates the root folder, `book`, and one subfolder named `[`. No files are extracted.
The file system is ext4.

wat do?
Have you tried using 7zip instead to extract it? Sometimes it will resolve weird RAR edge cases that unrar won't.
 
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Not my post but most mobile Centrino CPUs with a 400mhz base freq. were non-pae. Ubuntu fags, for whatever reason eventually became the most outraged because someone briefly created a non-pae version of the current ubuntu distro. NOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU HAVE TO GET A BRAND NEW LAPTOP.
 

tldr for 32bit CPUs to access memory beyond the 4GB boundary through page table hierarchies.
Isn't PAE just a kernel option nowdays on linux?
How to allow Japanese symbols in file names on Linux?
I know it's kubuntu but aside from what others have said, check the kernel options if you compile it. Should be under filesystems -> Language support. This is especially true if you're not using Unicode and need JIS X 0202 or UJIS. Unicode sucks if you're trying to use variant/historical forms of Chinese characters.
 
Isn't PAE just a kernel option nowdays on linux?
There isn't any change to regular 32bit applications, each of them still see a flat 32bit address space, giving them the usual theoretical view of a 4GB memory, but it is the kernel that manages and maps this flat virtual memory address to the physical address.

With PAE in use, the biggest change is that the total allocated/committed memory managed by the kernel can now exceed 4GB when multiple applications are running at the same time.
 
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I looked up and tried all drivers from the AMD website and they don't do shit.
 
There isn't any change to regular 32bit applications, each of them still see a flat 32bit address space, giving them the usual theoretical view of a 4GB memory, but it is the kernel that manages and maps this flat virtual memory address to the physical address.

With PAE in use, the biggest change is that the total allocated/committed memory managed by the kernel can now exceed 4GB when multiple applications are running at the same time.
I'm well aware of PAE is. I thought the enablement of it was basically a flag in the linux kernel?
 
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Wise Tiger
I came across this pretty quickly, it's a disgruntled router owner, but same company name. Doesn't sound ideal to me.


Also the domain https://wise-tiger.com/ initially showed an invalid SSL cert. Even when I accepted that, cloudways is blocking the domain.

Screenshot 2023-04-29 at 21-59-20 https __wise-tiger.com.png
 
I'm well aware of PAE is. I thought the enablement of it was basically a flag in the linux kernel?
Yes, https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X86_PAE.html
The configuration item CONFIG_X86_PAE:
There seems to be no way of disabling it without a rebuild though, leading to the Ubuntu drama despite little to no effort to do so.
 
I'm not sure where to ask this but this thread is as good as any... I picked up a new wireless card for my laptop (AX210NGW) and only after receiving it realized it's from a company called "Wise Tiger" and for some reason was expecting something Intel branded. Is this shit safe to use? I won't be installing any weird Windows specific drivers, AFAIK the drivers for the AX210NGW are baked into the linux kernel at this point.
That looks like a normal Intel part number, so it may just be they're buying them(grey market) and putting their name on it or using the Intel chipset on a PCB they designed. If it's using the Intel firmware and Intel drivers in Linux it's probably fine. If it has an FCC ID on it you might look that up, of course that could also just be fake.
 
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Rsnapshot if you want to do it through config files.
 
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