Description of problem: i just upgraded to new kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 and now the vfat mount of my data partition can´t display any unicode umlaute like ä,ü, etc.. in the old kernel 2.6.6-1.435 every thing was fine. the original vfat partition was created by using win xp. my mount options in /etc/fstab are /dev/hdb5 /mnt/daten vfat defaults,uid=chris,gid=chris,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,uni_xlate=1,shortname=winnt 0 0 /mnt/daten /home/chris/daten vfat bind i tried the following (after googling): - changed the line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to LANG="de_DE" now vfat mounts correctly display filenames but cifs mounts are coruppted. with LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" its vice versa. thanx a lot&all the best christoph Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): uname -r uname -r --> 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount a vfat filesystem (problem appears on both my laptop and desktop system) 2. 3. Additional info:
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