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luuuciano

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 311

ntfs-3g and extended characters names/directories in a ntfs partition

well, I am using ntfs-3g to access a storage ntfs partition
but I have problems with extended characters (like á ñ Ñ Ó, etc) in filenames and directories...
I can not see those files/directories (old files, from and old xp system) and I can not create new ones (using extended characters)...

I have tried adding my locale values in the fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/storage ntfs-3g defaults,users,quiet,rw,uid="user",umask=111,dmask=000,silent,locale="es_AR.utf8" 0 0

but it is not working, ntfs-3g gives a locale error on startup...

any idea?

TIA, and sorry for the bad english

luciano

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luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: ntfs-3g and extended characters names/directories in a ntfs partition

Hi luuuciano,
did you generate es_AR.utf8 locale?
Post the output of

 locale -a

luuuciano

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 311

Re: ntfs-3g and extended characters names/directories in a ntfs partition

yep, it was the first thing I did when installing arch...
locale -a looks like this:

$ locale -a
C
POSIX
es_AR
es_AR.iso88591
es_AR.utf8

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msoltyspl

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-07-09

Posts: 11

Re: ntfs-3g and extended characters names/directories in a ntfs partition

It's probably due to improper dumpkeys / loadkeys sequence in rc.sysinit . More (with fix) in:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36767
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7641

Actually, I discovered in similar way to you - by trying to open files with national characters on mounted ntfs partitions (polish in my case).