Sorry about the late answer, but i'm working at sea.. man, 25.10.2004 kl. 19.23 skrev Ian Malone: > Tor Harald Thorland <linux@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have tried to copy some files with some norwegian characters in the > > file name. > > FC 2 is not happy with them and keeps complaining that it cannot write > > them.. What can I do to make FC2 accept norwegian characters in > > filenames? > > Don't know if I can help, but the people who can probably need to know > more: > The kde file manager says the following: Could not write to /mnt/..... > Are you doing this from the command line or a filemanager? I have tried both from the filemanager in KDE and from midnight commander.. > Do you have the right permissions? If creating the new file, do you > have write permission for the directory you're copying to? Does the > destination file already exist read-only? (check by ls -lh) > Do you have enough free space (df -h)? It is a flash drive.. I have enough space, the right permissions and so on.. it is copying all the other files, except for the ones with norwegian characters.. > What does > $echo $LANG > say? (Given FC2, hopefully (something).UTF-8 ) [tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$ echo $LANG no_NO.UTF-8 [tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$ > > What file systems are you copying to and from (at the very least > the output of mount would be useful)? > [tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$ mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash2 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=tortho) [tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$ The one i'm trying to write to is flash2.. > What are the names of the files in question? I managed: > One of the files is called nødbrannpumpe.doc > $ touch Skarphéðinn > $ cp Skarphéðinn /tmp > $ ls /tmp/Skarphéðinn > /tmp/Skarphéðinn > > -- > imalone Thnx THT