Is international support broken is msdosfs file system driver?

[Shaowei Wang (wsw)]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote:
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>> try -L zh_CN.euc .
>>
> zh_CN.euc doesn't exist, I tried zh_CN.eucCN instead. Didn't work.
> I tried all zh_CN* and zh_TW* ones from /usr/share/locale/ -- none of them
> worked.
> Nut the garbage displayed by 'ls' changes depending on the one used.
>

You locale should be same as the param which passed to the -L option and
make sure your xterm(rxvt) can display chinese chars.



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>> Windows file system use a different way to encode i18n chars, like code
>> page.
>>
>> There is a hacked version of msdosfs which can support UTF-8 locale.
>>  http://groups.google.com/group/btload/web/msdosfs.tar.bz2
>> and for using:
>> mount_msdosfs -L zh_CN.UTF-8 /dev/ad?s? /path/to/mount
>>
>> I've tried it and it's work.
>>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/btload/web/msdosfs.tar.bz2 doesn't exist.


Please try the attached file.


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>
> Somehow in Windows the disk is read correctly without specifying any
> additional options.
> So I guess this is a serious defect that msdosfs driver can't do the same.
>

I think so.


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> Yuri
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