Is international support broken is msdosfs file system driver?

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Apr 6 20:50:07 PDT 2009


On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:29:55 -0700, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> Nobody replied and I still have the problem.
>
> I extracted the area of the disk where long file names are stored. And
> can see that all characters are in UTF-8.
>
> So how to correctly read UTF-8 encoded VFAT?

Remap the locale to something you *can* read?  I regularly use mount
options like -L el_GR.ISO8859-7 to browse FAT filesystems frm non-UTF8
sessions.

Can you try mounting with something like this?

    # mount -o -L=el_GR.ISO8859-7 /dev/msdosfs/FOO /mnt

BTW, this should probably be in -questions not -hackers.



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