Mounting SD card with specific encoding

[Tod Merley]

On Dec 26, 2007 12:22 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/12/2007, Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As Ed Greshko points out my dyslexia has soured the soup.  I saw 1255
> > but typed 1225 (twice!).  That little change may well fix it.
>
> I tried both 1225 and 1255. No change in situation, ie, the drive
> would not mount with the same error.
>
> >
> > To unmount /dev/sdb1 issue: umount /dev/sdb1.
>

>
> > Well, I am rambling!  Did not sleep well last night.
>
> Does anyone? My one-year old is pushing her teeth out now, nobody sleeps!
>
> As using copepage 1255 did not work, is there anything else that I
> could try? I tried using flag -t msdos instead of -t vfat but that did
> not help either.
>
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
Hi Dothan Cohen!

The question now is "where is cp-1255"?

If I do a "locate kernel/fs/nls" after a recent "# updatedb" the
resulting list contains:

/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp1255.ko

and

/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-7.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-9.ko

My old kernel seems to be missing 8859-8? -- I continue:

/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp1255.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-7.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-9.ko

As does my new Kernel.

One thing I note right away is that my suggested mount command is
probably wrong:

# mount -o codepage=1255,iocharset=iso8859-8,utf8 -t vfat /dev/sdb1

Should probably be:

# mount -o codepage=cp1255,iocharset=iso8859-8,utf8 -t vfat /dev/sdb1
                                   ^^
Since the files I have are named:

/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp1255.ko
                                                                    ^^
As well as the files close to iso8859-8 are named such in the mount
command and we did not get any errors from that part of the command.

BTW - Do you use Open Office.org?  Do you use it in Hebrew?  If so,
how do you like it?  If not, what do you use?

 I may well take Hebrew in the next few years.  If so perhaps we will
chat someday in Hebrew.

Please let us know how this all works out!

Tod