Bug 470086 - GNOME does not mount fat volumes in UTF-8
Summary: GNOME does not mount fat volumes in UTF-8
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 470592
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-mount
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-05 17:58 UTC by Hedayat Vatankhah
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-11-07 21:42:26 UTC
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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 ***


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