Description of problem: German umlauts created by Windows don't show correctly. You can't access files and folders. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Error present since Rh8 through Fedora How reproducible: Konqueror, any other application except Mozilla doesn't display the correct file- and foldernames Steps to Reproduce: 1. open applications, go to a vfat partition nad you'll see it. 2. 3. Actual results: Inaccessible files and folders Expected results: Access them with a correct "i18n"-file Additional info: FIX: You must edit the /etc/sysconfig i18n file correctly. My version now looks like: LANG="de_DE" LC_MONETARY="de_DE" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE" SYSFONTACM="iso15" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE" LC_COLLATE="de_DE" SYSFONT="lat0-16" LC_PAPER="de_DE" LANGUAGE="de_DE:de" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE" LC_CTYPE="de_DE" LC_TIME="de_DE" LC_NAME="de_DE" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" Everything works fine now.
Unicode support is the future, so the long-term solution is the one described in Bug 107834.
You need to have your filenames match your current locale, or mount them in such a way that their filenames are converted.
Nautilus (and the rest of gnome) assumes filenames are in UTF8 unless G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is set in the environment, then they are expected to be encoded according to the current locale. See for instance: http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.2.0-notes.html