Hi Loic, Loic Domaigne wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I am facing some issues with CIFS and german character encoding for file names > under Fedora Core 5. > > I have a NAS storage (DNS-323) running an embedded Linux with samba. This > device is able to support Western European encoding, which is set in the > smb.conf as follows: > > [ global ] > client code page = 850 > character set = ISO8859-1 > ... > >>From my wife's laptop running Windows XP, file names with Umlaute äöü etc. are > correctly shown. However, if I map the same drive under Fedora Core 5, the > filenames with Umlaute are shown as strange ? combination: > > # mount -t cifs -o username=antje%xxx,iocharset=iso8859-1 //<IP>/Volume_1/LaptopAntje /mnt/nas > # ls /mnt/nas/ > hmm ?.txt ?h?.txt PICT3303.JPG > > For instance ?h?.txt should be ähö.txt. > > I have tried to set the locale to de_DE.ISO-8859-1, but no avail. > # export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 > # ls /mnt/nas/ > hmm .txt ?h?.txt PICT3303.JPG > > Even more interesting, the same file names are correctly shown under > konqueror using the smb:// mapping. > > Could someone point me what I am doing wrong? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > what is the content of yout $LANG variable? Could you try to unset it and then ls the directory again? Also there is a mount option called iocharset. Maybe this will help. Alex -- Vorstand/Board of Management: Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner, Dr. Florian Geyer, Dr. Roland Niemeier, Dr. Arno Steitz, Dr. Ingrid Zech Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/ Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Prof. Dr. Hanns Ruder Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196
