Hello everybody,
I am struggling almost a month on this.
I have some files (FileMaker Pro) on a mac os 7. I mounted the external scsi drive (mac formateed) on the pc using MAcDrive. transfering works ok. but the file names (in the icons) are not recognised by windows.
I used MacDisk and converted some Mac fonts (LWFN format) into PostScript Type 1 (pfb, pfm files) for Windows.
Now when I change the windows settings and choose GrTimes for viewing the icons (the name of the files under their icon) the characters are recognisable by windows. But I can read the names of the Mac files but not the names of the Windows files (those in Greek).
MacDrive has some option for showing file names for international use , but when I am reading the hard drive (mac) with this option and copying the files to windows, file maker can not open the files.
When I am using the normal settings of mac drive and read the hard disk, I copy the files into windows, file maker opens it but the names of the files are not recognisable...
I now it is complicated.
But please shed some light here...
Mac os 7 uses MAc Roman encoding, and windows xp uses UTF-8.
what should i do. is it just a matter of transferring font files from mac to pc ? ( i laso used transtype and converted some fonts).
or should I tell windows to use a different character encoding to read the filenames?
people I am in a mess in my mind...sorry
I am struggling almost a month on this.
I have some files (FileMaker Pro) on a mac os 7. I mounted the external scsi drive (mac formateed) on the pc using MAcDrive. transfering works ok. but the file names (in the icons) are not recognised by windows.
I used MacDisk and converted some Mac fonts (LWFN format) into PostScript Type 1 (pfb, pfm files) for Windows.
Now when I change the windows settings and choose GrTimes for viewing the icons (the name of the files under their icon) the characters are recognisable by windows. But I can read the names of the Mac files but not the names of the Windows files (those in Greek).
MacDrive has some option for showing file names for international use , but when I am reading the hard drive (mac) with this option and copying the files to windows, file maker can not open the files.
When I am using the normal settings of mac drive and read the hard disk, I copy the files into windows, file maker opens it but the names of the files are not recognisable...
I now it is complicated.
But please shed some light here...
Mac os 7 uses MAc Roman encoding, and windows xp uses UTF-8.
what should i do. is it just a matter of transferring font files from mac to pc ? ( i laso used transtype and converted some fonts).
or should I tell windows to use a different character encoding to read the filenames?
people I am in a mess in my mind...sorry