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@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 -- dipl.-ing. christoph kunz fraunhofer institut fuer arbeitswirtschaft und organisation competence center softwaretechnik nobelstrasse 12 d-70569 stuttgart germany fon: +49 (0)711 - 970 2314 fax: +49 (0)711 - 970 2300 mail: christoph.kunz@xxxxxxxxxx icq#: 49335597 web: http://www.iao.fhg.de pgp#: 12AF7964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
