From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: Due to the switch to the UTF-8 locales existing files/directories with names that contain UTF-8 characters are almost impossible to access. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have to directories named M|lleimer (trashbin), one with the "|" in UTF-8 and one with the "|" in ISO-8859-1 2. Try to manipulate the directories (rm, mv, cd) 3. Have fun Actual Results: It's next to impossible to access the old file/directory. Expected Results: It should be possible to access old directories even under the new Locale. Additional info: This bug might prevent people from being able to access their data.
UTF-8 is not something that's going to be disabled. Sorry about this report getting lost in the shuffle. If it's a msdos/vfat/iso9660 filesystem, you probably want to check the codepage it's mounted with. If it's ext2/ext3, file a bug with coreutils if the normal tools don't work.