[kde-freebsd] system:/media/cd0 and volume_label not latin symbols

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:49:33 +0400
Maxim Samsonov <xors at mne.ru> wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 15:39:43 Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Sunday, 1. April 2007, Maxim Samsonov wrote:
> > > On Sunday 01 April 2007 22:09:46 Andrew Muhametshin wrote:
> > > > It is impossible to open a DVD/CD-media if a label of volume not latin
> > > > symbols. I asked some Linux-users, and it was found out, that in them,
> > > > mount point undertakes from a name of the device, for example:
> > > > "/media/cd0", but in FreeBSD, for mount point is used
> > > > "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label" -- and from for it there
> > > > are problems to their opening.
> > >
> > > You can achieve the same behaviour (like on linux) system wide
> > > through HAL's "desired mount point" mechanism.
> > > For example, if you place attached "10-cdrom-policy.fdi" file
> > > to your HAL's fdi dir (most probably
> > > in "/usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty"),
> > > /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1 should be mounted under /media/cdrom0 and
> > > /media/cdrom1 correspondingly.
> >
> > I forwarded this thread to gnome@ because it seemed to me like a more
> > generic
> >
> > problem with either DBUS or FreeBSD and got this reply from jylefort@:
> > > It looks like a Konqueror problem. You should try to determine why it
> > > cannot open that directory (what the russian error dialog means).
> >
> > Unfortunately I cannot read the screenshot either, what do you think is the
> > problem, Maxim - FreeBSD (mount) getting confused by the non-latin
> > filename, the encoding getting jumbled somewhere on the DBUS or something
> > else entirely?
> >
> > (gnome@ cc'd)
>
> This error message means:
> The file or folder /media/(...junk...) does not exist.
> But this folder exists and is properly mounted. You can see this
> on my screenshot - error dialog and terminal window with /media dir
> listed (all messages in english, except mount point name
> and disc contents :) ).
> http://foto.rambler.ru/users/xors/_photos/mediasnap/webbig.html
>
> I think that incorrectly encoded dir name, from user's locale point of view,
> appears because HAL can't properly choose which encoding to use for mount
> point dir name or doesn't even try, and creates dir with UTF8 encoded name.
> By default KDE media manager doesn't submit any mount point name to HAL
> leaving it for him to decide which one is to be used. Media manager sends to
> HAL something which is not an empty string when mount point name is set from
> GUI or by desired mount point policy.
> So I see several solutions:
>  1. By default submit to HAL user's locale encoded mount point name.

This is not possible. All hal data must be encoded in UTF-8.

>  2. Modify mount point naming scheme to something which is not
>     dependant on locale encoding, for example, to device name.

I'd rather not make this the default behaviour. The volume label is
much more informative than the device name and should cause no
problems for most users.

>  3. Change user's locale to UTF8.

This is the recommended solution. UTF-8 is now universally supported
and I see no reason to stick to a legacy encoding.

--
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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