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karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 113

Help with wrong characters after a reinstall

I just reinstalled arch because I changed the HD of my laptop, I reinstalled everything and I'm running gnome again.

The problem is that now when I browse my windows partition some folders use characters like áéíóú (I speak spanish) but in nautilus all I see is Csar instead of César, instead of é I see a question mark over a black background. It seems that it doesn't understand which character it is.

Before I reinstalled arch everything was working fine. Now I can't add my music to banshee because of this, I get an error and it won't add anything if it has those characters in the path.

I tried changing my locale to iso instead of utf8 and it is displayed fine but still banshee complains about it, I don't know how to fix it because it didn't happen before.

the output of locale -a

C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

and just locale

LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Thanks, I hope somebody could help me because a lot of my music has this characters, even the one I have in my external hd.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Help with wrong characters after a reinstall

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

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