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Zespris

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Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 13

[Solved] Spanish characters not read on NTFS hard drive

Hi there,

Every time I mount my NTFS hard drive with the windows partition on it, I can't read the file names properly. Instead of á, é, í, ó and ú it introduces boxes or interrogation signs. Any idea why that may be?

Last edited by Zespris (2008-11-19 12:28:20)

Inkaine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 88

Re: [Solved] Spanish characters not read on NTFS hard drive

Yes, it's surely missing support for utf8. I guess that's happening with automount? Are you running Gnome? For I encountered that just shortly ago there. HAL isn't getting the correct locale options. (It can't be KDE for it got fixed there in 4.1.1 or .2)

In Gnome run gconf-editor

/ -> apps -> system -> ntfs-3g -> mount_options: [locale=es_ES.UTF8]

Set locale to whatever your locale is, I just assumed Spain now. That should get you going. Additionally you might want to add ",utf8" to vfat mount_options as well, just in case you use FAT32 drives as well (or will in the future).

If that doesn't help you please tell us where exactly you get this issue and, what DE etc. Good luck.

atordo

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Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 147

Re: [Solved] Spanish characters not read on NTFS hard drive

I use the locale=es_ES@euro option in /etc/fstab and it works fine. That's for iso-8859-15, if you use utf8 set the option described above (just match your LANG environment variable).

Zespris

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Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Spanish characters not read on NTFS hard drive

Thanks, everything is working fine now!