[fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

haukew · 2009-01-07 01:06:31

Hi!
I am having the problem that the german Umlauts (üäöß) are broken on my external hard drive.
That's for example the folder "Hörbücher" -> "HÃ¶rbÃ¼cher" or "Herbert Grönemeyer" -> "Herbert GrÃ¶nemeyer"

I had this problem before (when i switched on SuSE from KDE3 to KDE4), the solution back then was to convert all filenames on the disk to UTF-8 (they were ISO-8859-1 before).
Problem now is: They already are, still the names are broke (after i installed Arch but keeping KDE4).

When i try to convert the files with

convmv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -r /media/disk/*

I get back:

Skipping, already UTF-8: /media/disk/videos/musikvideos/Hannes_Wader___Viel_zu_schade_fÃ¼r_mich1972.flv

Which is logical, because the already ARE UTF-8.
So - how can i repair the filenames now?

When i start convmv it says this:

bash-3.2# convmv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -r /media/disk/*
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "de",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_COLLATE = "C",
        LANG = "de_DE.utf8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Your Perl version has fleas #37757 #49830
Starting a dry run without changes...
Skipping, already UTF-8: /media/disk/musik/HÃ¶rbÃ¼cher
No changes to your files done. Use --notest to finally rename the files.
bash-3.2#

The part of my rc.conf concerning my locale is this:

LOCALE="de_DE.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

Last edited by haukew (2009-01-07 12:26:20)

SamC · 2009-01-07 01:23:09

I might have missed it, but what file system is it?

ewigkeit · 2009-01-07 07:03:27

I had a similar problem once... so the first thing, that came into my mind is, maybe you could mount the external harddrive with specific options for mount:

For example:

mount -o iocharset=utf8 ...

haukew · 2009-01-07 07:42:03

Another thing: K3B shows me this:

System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting will result in problems when creating data projects.
Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools take care of this.

Mektub · 2009-01-07 11:50:25

Same question as SamC: what file system is it ?

And what is the out put of:

echo $LANG
set | grep LC_

Dis you uncomment the "de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" line in /etc/locale.gen and run the command "locale" afterwards ?

Mektub

haukew · 2009-01-07 12:07:32

Hi!
Thanks for your answer.
First, this is the output:

$ echo $LANG
de_DE.utf8
$ set | grep LC_
LC_COLLATE=C
$

And - yes, the lines were (actually all lines were...) commented out, i must have forgotten this when i set up the machine
I just changed it and ran locale-gen and will now restart - let's see...
@filesystem: Sorry, i just didn't see that, i was quite tired when i posted my second post
It's ext3

[edit] Yep, that did it - everything works now - thanks a lot!

Last edited by haukew (2009-01-07 12:27:38)

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#1 2009-01-07 01:06:31

[fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

#2 2009-01-07 01:23:09

Re: [fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

#3 2009-01-07 07:03:27

Re: [fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

#4 2009-01-07 07:42:03

Re: [fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

#5 2009-01-07 11:50:25

Re: [fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

#6 2009-01-07 12:07:32

Re: [fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

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