[kde-linux] Character encoding problem in KDE

[Alain M.]

Try somesing like this in your fstab (using the correct codepage):

/dev/hda5 /mnt/dados vfat 
umask=0,check=r,users,exec,codepage=850,iocharset=utf8,shortname=win95,noatime 
0 0

I have similar problems, and this solved them...

Alain

Hellmut Weber escreveu:
> Hi,
> as german using german locale I have similar problems with 'äöüßÄÖÜ' as 
> you may imagine ;-)
> 
> It seems (as you can see with other effects too) utf-8 is not yet fully 
> supported. (Try for example to define a CUPS printer whose description 
> is e.g. 'Büro' =Office)
> 
> So I avoid names with special characters like 'é'. Sticking with 
> ASCII-127 (and not using blanks in file names) saves me lots of time and 
> problems,
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Hellmut
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> /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 ???
>