Kristian Niemi said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:51:33PM +0200: > I had that problem when mounting a windows partition. > > Solved it by adding, in my case, 'iocharset=iso8859-15' to fstabs; i.e. > mounting it with that option. Don't know which charset is the proper one > for american english though; iso8859-1? Apostrophes, quotes, > scandinavian characters (едц), etc., are showing up just as they're > supposed to do now. > > I don't think it has anything to do with the locale, as such, since I > had the locale set up properly (I hope), but simply telling mount how to > mount it properly.
Windows gets iso-8859-1 (ie, Latin-1) wrong. See <http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/> for details. As far as I know, there's no way to force Linux (or other systems) to use the broken character set. M
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