Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89701
german umlauts not displayed correctly
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: first of all: i have checked bugzilla and found various bugs regarding german umlauts. still, i couldn't find it the way i am experiencing it. i choose component "kde-i18n", but this is probably not true. the problem shows up in all programs (gnome-terminal, nautilus, konqueror, to name the most prominent) ok, IMPORTANT: while i preview this bug right now i see, that the umlauts are not displayed here in the description box. so, for the rest of this document, i use the html-encoding: whenever you see ö - i really mean the german umlaut o. i reported the bug while i am running redhat 9, that means i am experiencing it while i write about it. awful :-) ok, here goes: i use ms windows and red hat linux on the same computer, with a fat32-partition in the middle for data exchange. when i create a file (let's call it ���ö öö.txt) under windows, it shows up as "???.txt (Unicode ungü �ltig)" under redhat. vice versa, when i create a file called �üü ü��.txt under redhat, it shows up under windows incorrectly (with some squares instead of the umlauts). i can, however, create files with umlauts with redhat and use them just perfectly as long as i only use them under linux. another aspect of the problem: i recently set up a redhat8 server for file sharing purposes (small network with 2 windows xp clients). i set up samba and then copied the files the company gave me (they were burned on a cd-rom). the only way i could transfer the files to the redhat-server was, putting the cd into one of the windows clients and copy the files from there to the server. when i opened a filemanager then on the server, i saw the usual bugged umlauts, but that didn't matter, because the files would only be opened on the windows clients where they were displayed correctly. i could, however, not copy the files from the cd to the share via the servers cdrom drive because it would again screw the umlauts up, also for the windows machines... it is said that this is a problem with utf-8. well, i just wanna say that it's a showstopper for me. i use redhat linux a lot, at home almost exclusively and i have also installed it in several companies (i am an it-support). dualbooting between windows and linux is very common nowadays and even if someone is not using windows at all, he will probably experience the problem when exchanging data with someone who does use windows... best regards, christian Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a file with german umlauts in windows or linux 2. view the file in a filemanager/shell in the other operating system 3. Actual Results: ���ö%ouml;ö.txt (created with windows xp) got displayed as ???.txt (unicode ung�ltig) in linux ���ü%uuml;%uuml;.txt (created with redhat 9) got displayed as *+:.txt in windows (not exactly, it was more like, squares...) Expected Results: well, obviously the files should have correct names... Additional info:
man mount to configure character set translation for the fat32 partition.
ok, i found the solution to the problem: it is already mentioned in another bug report here: edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n: change the line: lang="de_DE:utf-8" to lang="de_DE" it is not, like mentioned above, an issue that's connected to mounting options for fat32-partitions. after editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n, it is perfectly possible to use a fat-partition mounted just with "vfat auto,uid=500". this fix solves the problem almost completely (umlauts show up in redhat, files with umlauts can be created and viewed with both operating systems). this bug seems to be a minor issue technically but it is a major annoyance to german speaking redhat-users. on another note: this fix doesn't solve the problem completely: when i connect to another windows machine via nautilus and smb:///, i also discover this bug. it does, however, not show up, when i browse the same share with konqueror, so there could also be some gnome-related problem. but i am just guessing :-) regards, christian p.s.: sorry for changing my account. something screwed up and i could neither log in with my other email nor get my password resent to me...
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