[kde-linux] Character encoding problem in KDE

[LM-pro--]

Hello everyone,


I sport Debian 4.0 Release 0 with KDE 3.5.5, and kernel 2.6.18-4-k7.

The whole with a locale in French, BUT with a German keyboard
(first line is: qwertzuiopü+*~).
I can add to this that with this same configuration under Debian 3.1 
with KDE 3.3.2 there was absolutely no problem.

First there comes a description of my problem:

In /etc/fstab, I added:
/dev/sda2 /home/ludovic/Données_personnelles vfat 
user,exec,noauto,rw,umask=007 0 0

With Konqueror I added under /home/ludovic the directory 
« Données_personnelles ».

After that, on my KDE desktop, I did « Add a new » « Link to periphery 
device » « hard disk », selecting of course:
/dev/sda2 (/home/ludovic/Données_personnelles).

After clicking on the icon to mount the partition, I got the very bad 
surprise :
« The file or directory /home/ludovic/Données_personnelles does not 
exist. »
and in the corresponding Konqueror window, the URL with the wrong spelling:
/home/ludovic/Données_personnelles

Why these signs « ...é... » in the middle of the name of my directory, 
although it was not the way I wrote it ???

On the opposite, when working with Konsole, no problem, I can mount, 
unmount, read the contents of my partition in the directory which is 
dedicated to it, etc. Please see below.

/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
.........
/dev/sda2 on /home/ludovic/Données_personnelles type vfat 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=007,user=ludovic)
ludovic at ordinateur:~$ ls -l
total 230
-rw-r--r-- 1 ludovic ludovic 213680 2007-09-03 22:34 capture1.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 ludovic ludovic 4096 2007-09-03 23:09 Desktop
drwxrwx--- 12 ludovic ludovic 6144 1970-01-01 01:00 Données_personnelles
drwxr-xr-x 2 ludovic ludovic 4096 2007-09-02 23:46 Temp-mp3
ludovic at ordinateur:~$ cd Données_personnelles/
ludovic at ordinateur:~/Données_personnelles$ ls -l
total 7817
-rwxrwx--- 1 ludovic ludovic 52731 2005-07-25 12:07 
aaaAnreise-aus-Jena.doc.zip
-rwxrwx--- 1 ludovic ludovic 3540 2005-07-25 12:07 aaa-einladung.doc.zip
........................................................................................................ 

........................................................................................................ 

-rwxrwx--- 1 ludovic ludovic 4115 2005-09-23 22:10 NumImpt.doc
drwxrwx--- 2 ludovic ludovic 1024 2006-03-13 20:41 recycled
-rwxrwx--- 1 ludovic ludovic 4322272 2006-12-02 13:58 
regedit-12-2-14-57.reg
-rwxrwx--- 1 ludovic ludovic 20480 2007-01-15 21:38 Résumé_GRUB.doc
drwxrwx--- 4 ludovic ludovic 1024 2006-01-07 19:42 Transfert
ludovic at ordinateur:~/Données_personnelles$ umount /dev/sda2
umount: /home/ludovic/Données_personnelles: device is busy
ludovic at ordinateur:~/Données_personnelles$ cd ..
ludovic at ordinateur:~$ umount /dev/sda2
ludovic at ordinateur:~$ cd Données_personnelles/
ludovic at ordinateur:~/Données_personnelles$ ls -l
total 0
ludovic at ordinateur:~/Données_personnelles$

I suppose it is a KDE problem with a character coding type, but I don't 
know where to look and what to do.
(Even in Konsole, « Configuration » « Encoding » I find « Default »...)
So I don't really now what encoding I should select AND WHERE ?

Thanks for your help

ludo

P.S. My Debian 4.0 install is pretty new and I realize that:
- names of files and directories on the partition sda2 (vfat) that have 
accents are altered,
- in files (e.g. opened with Kwrite or with OpenOffice), all words with 
accents are altered.

Are there solutions to these problems, doctors ?