Description of problem:
Fedora and newer RedHat Linux use HAL and the gnome-volume-manager
which detects when you connect an USB Drive to your Linux Machine and
then depending on the HAL entries mounts them, or not. Unfortunately
you forgot to add a parameter when mounting vfat drives. This missing
parameter is "iocharset=utf8". Without this missing mount parameter
all german umlauts are sown as questionmarks. If you don't use HAL and
the gnome-volume-manager you can just add  in /etc/fstab to the vfat
entry. If you use HAL, this doesn't work, because HAL writes an entry
for the device you connect and might overwrite your iocharset=utf8
parameter. In this case you have create an own policy: create a file
fatUmlauts.fdi in:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy

which contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!--
mount vfat block devices with mountparameter iocharset=utf8
this should fix problems showing questionmarks instead of german umlauts
-->
<device>
<match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8"
type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

It would be nice, when the next relase would contain this mount option
by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect a vfat device containing german Umlauts (öäü) in filenames 
2. ls a directory containing these filenames
3. the Umlauts are shows as questionmarks
    

Actual Results:  the device was mounted without the iocharset=utf8
parameter

Expected Results:  hal/fstab-sync should create an entry with
iocharset=utf8 as mount parameter.

Additional info: