tlug: Kanji filenames

["Frank Bennett (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJVUlaSVzJS8kWSVNJUMlSBsoQg==?= )" <bennett@example.com>]

Dear all,

I ran a search on this topic against the TLUG archives, and what returned
was primarily discussion of whether 8-bit filenames are acceptable
practice.  For reasons I won't expand upon here, I have a need,
independent of my own feelings in the matter, to read Kanji filenames off
of the vfat partition of a Windows workstation, and save the relevant
files into a tar archive.

What mantras are necessary in order to do this?  At present, the shell
script used for the save picks up the file name through the globbing
operator *, but then when tar tries to access that filename, it returns
"file not found".  I have scanned through the kernel options, and haven't
found the section.  Is this enabled through a patch to the kernel?  Or is
it a filesystem driver thing?

Any help that anyone can offer would be a great assistance.  I'm kind of
stuck.

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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