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Llama

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Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

It's probably iocharset=utf8 question, but it's not only cd-rom - native partitions with "defaults" options behave no better. What is the correct solution? Current locale is en_US.UTF-8, which should be OK.

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Re: Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

Does that happen only in terminals or is it system wide?

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Llama

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Re: Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

Systemwide... Besides, its Xfce. I didn't think it was relevant, but I did some research since the initial post; it could be Xfce bug, for all I know . On another computer (PCLinuxOS, KDE) it was always OK, right out of the box.

Llama

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Re: Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

Later: installed kdebase. Nothing changed

Llama

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Re: Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

By the way, according to the startup script output, first I get the filesystems mounted, then the locale set. Could it be relevant?

Llama

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Re: Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

It looks like the problem hides somewhere in the HAL configuration (*.fdi files), as it's the HAL's responsibility to mount NTFS partitions and flash sticks where the question marks show. I tried to explore the configuration on a trouble-free installation (PCLinuxOS), but I feel unequal to the task . Anybody who knows the ropes - please, help!

sirocco

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Re: Non-english characters in file names show as question marks

native partitions with "defaults" options behave no better

What filesystems?

For ntfs read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

Policies
NOTE: this is deprecated from hal => 0.5.10

and

mount.ntfs linking

As of hal => 0.5.10 the above policy may not work. This is a workaround forcing hal to use the ntfs-3g driver instead of the standard ntfs driver. Please note that this method will use the ntfs-3g driver for all NTFS drives on your system! As root create a symbolic link from mount.ntfs to mount.ntfs-3g.
# ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs

Possible issues using this method:
if mount is called with "-i" option it doesn't work
possible issues with the kernels ntfs module

Locale issues

If you use KDE, you may have problem with filenames containing non-latin characters. This happens because kde's mounthelper is not parsing correctly the policies and locale option. There is a workaround for this:

1) Remove the "/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g" which is a symlink. code: rm /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g

2) Replace it with a new bash script containing:
#!/bin/bash
/bin/ntfs-3g $1 $2 -o locale=en_US.UTF-8 #put your own locale here

3) Make it executable: chmod +x /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g

There is only a problem with partition labels containing spaces, so if you have such a label, replace the space with an underscore, otherwise when you try to mount it you will get an error.

4) Add NoUpgrade=sbin/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g to pacman.conf.

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