i18n settings for cifs&vfat
christoph kunz
christoph.kunz at iao.fhg.de
Thu Aug 19 07:56:34 UTC 2004
hi all, hi alexander,
even when i set the locale to
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
and the fstab to
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/daten vfat
defaults,uid=chris,gid=chris,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt 0 0
/mnt/daten /home/chris/daten vfat bind
vfat unicode characters are not valid. every unicode is displayed as
"?". thats the real strange thing..
mmh, what to do? unset CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 and recompile the
kernel?
thanx for your help and all the best
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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