On 4/1/06, Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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'. > > Well , that's to be expected , how did you expected mount ( > remember mount speaks english ) to do that for you . You did > got that because your mount command was incomplete . > > > How can I get the accents correctly? > > If it is a FAT Partition then you can get it done correctly if it is an > NTFS partition then you can't get it . > > For example i used > > mount -o iocharset=iso8859-7,codepage=737 /dev/hda1 /mnt/DosDisk > > > The above command gives you access to a partition that contains Greek . > No for your case just put in the correct value for iocharset and codepage. > > Btw what language was that ? Spannish ?? Thanks, Kostas. In fact, I am mounting a Linux partition and *not* a MS Windows one. The accented word is written in Portuguese. Paul