From: David Tweed Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:11:32 GMT Subject: Re: [Bug] vfat: Not a git archive Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87abi45c97.fsf@debian.erik.com> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Christensen wrote: > Teemu Likonen 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.) -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ david.tweed@gmail.com Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot