Paul Smith 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. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "We completely deny the allegations, and we're @westexe.demon.co.uk | trying to identify the alligators."
