Changing encoding in Dolphin

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25/01/2008, Michael Mauch <michael.mauch at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > Thanks. After some time googling, I suspect that I need to add the
> > iso-8859-8 codepage to the fstab entry. However, I don't seem to have
> > it:
>
> > Anybody know how to install nls_iso8859-8.ko on Ubuntu? I'll ask on
> > the Ubuntu list, but someone here may know as well. Thanks.
>
> There is no nls_iso8859-8.ko in current Linux kernels. These are the
> available choices in the kernel "make menuconfig":
>
>    <M>   NLS ISO 8859-1  (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-2  (Latin 2; Slavic/Central European Languages)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-3  (Latin 3; Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-4  (Latin 4; old Baltic charset)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-5  (Cyrillic)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-6  (Arabic)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-7  (Modern Greek)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-9  (Latin 5; Turkish)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-13 (Latin 7; Baltic)
>    < >   NLS ISO 8859-14 (Latin 8; Celtic)
>    <M>   NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro)
>
>
> But probably you don't need that module.
>
> These iocharset mount options (e.g. iocharset=iso8859-7) are used to set
> the character set that is used on the Linux side. Ubuntu uses UTF-8,
> which can display all characters, not just 256 characters like the old
> ISO 8859 character sets. You could try iocharset=utf8 (though I hope
> that would be the default on Ubuntu).
>
> But there is another option, named "codepage", to tell in which
> character set the filenames on your FAT filesystem are. For Hebrew
> filenames that could be cp862. So try with
> "codepage=cp862,iocharset=utf8".
>
> Regards...
>                 Michael

Thanks, Michael. 862 is, if I'm not mistaken, the old IBM encoding. A
more common encoding today is cp1255 or 1255, which it turns out is a
superset of iso8859-8 and that's why Linux does not need iso8859-8.
Codepage cp1255 and 1255 did not help me read the card, though
(Non-ascii characters in filenames remained as question marks). Any
other ideas? Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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