Transfering files from mac os 7 to windows xp:character problem

hello everybody,
struggling month on this.

have files (filemaker pro) on mac os 7. mounted external scsi drive (mac formateed) on pc using macdrive. transfering works ok. file names (in icons) not recognised windows.

used macdisk , converted mac fonts (lwfn format) postscript type 1 (pfb, pfm files) windows.

when change windows settings , choose grtimes viewing icons (the name of files under icon) characters recognisable windows. can read names of mac files not names of windows files (those in greek).

macdrive has option showing file names international use , when reading hard drive (mac) option , copying files windows, file maker can not open files.

when using normal settings of mac drive , read hard disk, copy files windows, file maker opens names of files not recognisable...

complicated.

please shed light here...

mac os 7 uses mac roman encoding, , windows xp uses utf-8.
should do. matter of transferring font files mac pc ? ( laso used transtype , converted fonts).

or should tell windows use different character encoding read filenames?

people in mess in mind...sorry

 

it's not clear me happening, exactly. several things going wrong here. unfortunately, each 1 has different solution - may need combine solutions stuff working.

if problem characters in file names invalid windows, there used program called mac2fat fix issue en masse. sadly, no longer exists... there alternative solution. if can files in question onto mac os x machine, compress them 7zx (choose 7-zip archive format), copy resulting .7z archive windows, , decompress there official 7-zip utility, file names found in archive aren't valid windows automatically fixed on extraction.

if problem files transfer okay, aren't readable after transfer completes, cause files make use of resource fork, windows doesn't understand. way fix depends on program created files - option want called "flatten", "send windows", or similar.

if neither of first 2 issues turn out what's happening odds you've got encoding issue. plain text files, problem can fixed bare bones software's textwrangler. can correct line endings format windows expects.

 

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