Bug 470086

Summary: GNOME does not mount fat volumes in UTF-8
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayatv>
Component: gnome-mountAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: alsadi, davidz, mclasen, wwoods, yaneti
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Description Hedayat Vatankhah 2008-11-05 17:58:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
Using the latest rawhide packages, gnome does not use utf8 option when mounting fat partitions such as usb file systems. As a result, I can't see non English file names in USB devices correctly, and also I'm unable to create any files with non English characters in the device (I'm even unable to create a new directory using nautilus in the device since it wants to use a localized name for "untitled folder").


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-mount-0.8-1.fc9 (it seems that this bug is not related to this package since it is not a new package. I don't know which package it really belongs to. But everything is correct when I mount the devices with -o utf8 option using mount command. maybe the kernel used utf8 option by default before ?!)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. plug a USB device to your system
2. try to create/copy a file/directory with UTF-8 characters in its name
  
Actual results:
It refuses to create/copy the file/directory in the device. Also, you are unable to see correct names if the devices contains such file names already.

Expected results:
You should be able to see correct file names and also be able to copy/create files and directories with utf-8 characters in such fat devices.
Comment 1 Yanko Kaneti 2008-11-05 19:37:56 UTC 
It might have been wrong to be doing it in the kernel (linux-2.6-defaults-fat-utf8.patch, now removed), but I think its the right thing for gnome.
Time to consider http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487547
Comment 2 Will Woods 2008-11-07 21:42:26 UTC 
I'm pretty sure this needs to be fixed in HAL, at least for now, so we get the same behavior in KDE etc.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 470592 ***