Problem with accents on mounted partitions

[Paul Smith]

On 4/1/06, James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > When I mount, from FC5, a partition of FC4 with the command
> >
> > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/fc4
> >
> > I get 'm\341tica' as the name of the directory 'mática'.
>
> and:
> > Thanks, Kostas. In fact, I am mounting a Linux partition and *not* a
> > MS Windows one.  The  accented word is written in Portuguese.
>
> In that case, you've changed your charset between FC4 and FC5. Linux
> does *not* store the charset in which filenames are encoded, nor yet
> expect that they will be in UTF-8 or ISO 8859-x (or anything else): it
> just stores filenames as a bunch of bytes. User-space is responsible for
> displaying them according to the appropriate charset.
>
> Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/i18n on both machines, and run
> echo $LANG
> set | grep ^LC
>
> It's possible that you've got (or have had) an old .bashrc or something
> that dates back years which sets $LANG or $LC_* to something else.

Thanks, James. I just added the following line to /etc/sysconfig/i18n
(on FC5), and the problem was solved:

SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:pt_PT"

Paul