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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: FAT codepages for different languages.
From:       Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl () huftis ! org>
Date:       2008-10-12 15:47:30
Message-ID: 200810121747.30483.karl () huftis ! org
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Sundag 12 oktober 2008 skreiv Karl Ove Hufthammer:
>[posted and mailed]
>
>Nick Shaforostoff wrote:
>> Hi. I added support for mounting vfat (e.g. usb flash) filessystems
>> with codepage based on the current locale:
>> it is 855 for Russian (+Ukrainian, +Byelorussian, +Bulgarian) and 850
>> for western European languages:
>
>Why? Using these old (and very limiting when it comes to character
> repertoire) character encodings seems like a very bad idea.
>
>I'm now using KDE 4.1 (Mandriva 2009.0), and have now for the first time
>experienced character encoding problem with mounting USB discs, whereas I
>didn't have any problems before, using KDE 3 (Mandriva 2008.1). Now many
>characters in filenames (stored using KDE 3) are displayed as question
> marks, and Dolphin can't even delete them. So this looks like a regression,
> not an improvement.
>
>Looking closer at the filenames (using hexdump -C), it looks like they are
>really UTF-16.

Sorry, KCharSelect got me confused. They are shown (using ‘ls') as ISO 8859-1, 
not UTF-16. But this is still wrong, though. My mount string says

/dev/sdc1 on /media/SANSA VIEW type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500)

i.e., no mention of either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. Still they are interpreted as 
ISO 8859-1 on a UTF-8 system. What's going on?

-- 
Mvh.
Karl Ove Hufthammer
http://blogg.huftis.org/
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