On 4/1/06, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Thanks, James. I just added the following line to /etc/sysconfig/i18n (on FC5), and the problem was solved: SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:pt_PT" Paul
