[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 489222] unable to see/create non-ASCII utf-8 filenames in vfat USB stricks

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--- Comment #11 from Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com>  2009-04-07 15:51:57 EDT ---
The kernel docs specifically say:

  NOTE: "iocharset=utf8" is not recommended. If unsure,
  you should consider the following option [utf8] instead.

(http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt;hb=HEAD#l55)

I think the correct behavior here is to leave off iocharset & codepage and
either:

a) Just use 'utf8' by default everywhere (matches old behavior), or
b) have something in the desktop environment (gnome-mount?) choose either
'utf8' or an appropriate iocharset/codepage, depending on the user's locale.

..but I don't know what component should make that choice. 

Probably easiest just to use 'utf8' everywhere by default, and document how you
can override that, for the benefit those few people still using non-UTF8 data
(e.g. bug 454013 and the 7 locales mentioned previously).

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