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.
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
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 ***