>> Hello everybody
>>
>> I have a simple question regarding locale on Fedora core >= 5.
>>
>> I have a EXT2 filesystem with filenames encoded using ISO-8859-1:
>>
>> $ ls -b mnt/
>> [loic neumann ~]$ ls -b mnt/
>> A\304O\326\334\334.txt try_\344\366\374.txt
>>
>> [loic neumann ~]$ ls mnt/ | iconv -f ISO_8859-1
>> AÄOÖÜÜ.txt
>> try_äöü.txt
>>
>> How should I set the locale so that the filenames are displayed correctly
>> (i.e. using ISO-8859-1 encoding)? With that appropriate setting, I'd like that
>> the "ls mnt/" command shows:
>> AÄOÖÜÜ.txt
>> try_äöü.txt
>
> Why not convert the filenames into UTF8?
>
> yum install convmv
> convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -r mnt/
>
> Add --notest to convmv to do the actual conversion.
I can't. The EXT2 filesystem resides actually on a NAS that uses internally ISO-8859-1 for filenames enconding, not UTF-8. Changing to UTF-8 would mess things up.
Thanks,
Loic.
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