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Diestelhenne

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 31

HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

Hey folks!

How can I make HAL mount USB flash devices with support for German characters such as ä, ö, ü, ß, etc? At the moment there's only a silly question mark instead: http://www12.file-upload.net/20.08.08/3cpcpx.png .

Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

Henrik

Diestelhenne

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 31

Re: HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

How can I define charsets for devices with specific file systems?

So that HAL mounts every vfat formatted device with iocharset=UTF-8?

Thanks

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

Hi Diestelhenne,
see this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ost3092382

Diestelhenne

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 31

Re: HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

Thanks, but I don't use GNOME. I'm a proud KDE4.1 user^^

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

I think it's a bug in KDE4, because no other window manager or desktop environment has such problems. I had it as well, when I used KDE4.0.* for testing and seems like this remained. Do you have a completely german KDE4? Check the system settings!

A thing comes to my mind, did you check it with konqueror? I guess this bug appears in dolphin, richtig? I schätz mal schon Try it with konqueror, if it doesn't appear there, it's a dolphin thing

Diestelhenne

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 31

Re: HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

Thanks for your answer, Army. My KDE(mod) wasn't completely German, now I fixed that but the bug remains.
The problem is as well in Konqeror. Maybe you're right calling it a KDE4 issue because Amarok 1.4 (KDE3 version) is able to acces those files. Although the directories aren't correctly displayed by it I'm able to access them. This is part of an Amarok screenshot: http://www11.file-upload.net/24.08.08/yozc9s.png

Diestelhenne

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 31

Re: HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

PS: I temporarily solved this issue by creating a line in /etc/fstab containing:
/dev/sdb                    /mnt/usb    auto    noauto,rw,users,utf8,umask=0000    0    0

But as said before I don't want to use fstab because if I plug two USB devices the problem will return and I like mount points like /media/KINGSTON more than /mnt/usb

Regards