i18n settings for cifs&vfat

christoph kunz christoph.kunz at iao.fhg.de
Thu Aug 19 17:22:07 UTC 2004


hi again,

i also tried your options, the utf8 switch i have tried before.

nothing helped :( 

with the utf8 switch unicode characters don´t show a "?" via ls but some
other wired stuff. 

i now created a bug in bugzilla ->
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23696

thanks a lot for your help

christoph

Am Mi, den 18.08.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 17:21:
> Am Mi, den 18.08.2004 schrieb christoph kunz um 11:03:
> 
> > i´m using fc2 with standard kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2. in my ofrfice
> > setting i have to mount windows shares via cifs and my ms compatible
> > vfat partition for data storage.
> > 
> > with fc2 standard kernel 2.6.6 everything went fine with display names
> > of files when mounting cifs or vfat. 
> > now with the new kernel german umlaute (ä,ü) are corrupted in vfat.
> > after googling i changed the line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to 
> > #LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
> > #LANG="de_DE at euro"
> > LANG="de_DE"
> > 
> > now vfat mounts correctly display filenames but cifs mounts are
> > coruppted. with LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" it vice versa.
> > 
> > do you have any hints what changed with the 2.6.7 kernel?? or how to
> > correctly mount cifs AND vfat??
> 
> > christoph
> 
> With just a quick grep over the config for
> /boot/config-2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp I see that it has
> 
> CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
> 
> while the older /boot/config-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 does not have such a
> setting. Though the default codepage for vfat was 437 already before
> (see man mount).
> I think what you should try is to use the UTF-8 locale and when mounting
> your vfat partitions "iocharset=" as a mount option. Please see the vfat
> part in the manpage for mount. There is a "codepage=" option too, you
> may try that as well with i.e. a value of 850.
> 
> Alexander
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