Re: [Bug] vfat: Not a git archive

From: David Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2008, 11:11 UTC
Message-ID: <e1dab3980806020411ld0f40a8v60bbce46c0c0bd99@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87abi45c97.fsf@debian.erik.com>

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Christensen <thomasc@thomaschristensen.org> wrote:

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> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> Thomas Christensen wrote (2008-06-02 12:20 +0200):
>>
>> Hmm, for example KDE automatically mounts VFAT filesystems with mount
>> option "utf8" when using UTF-8 locale. VFAT uses UTF-16 in filenames and
>> the only way to convert filenames losslessly (apart from the case
>> insensitive issue) between Linux and VFAT is to use UTF-8 locale in
>> Linux. I have described the subject in the Debian bug #417324:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417324
>>
>> What locale are you using? What mount options did you use when you
>> mounted the /media/KINGSTON/ filesystem?
>
> LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
>
> /dev/sda1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=1000)

I've got shortname=mixed (but via a manually set up fstab; I don't know what the automounters do.)

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