Re: [MandrakeMove] umlauts or howto mount ext3 with utf-8

Helge Hielscher <[email protected]> writes:

> all my partitions are accessed with Mandrake Linux using UTF-8 locales.
> Is there a way to access the data using MM with correct filenames?
> Changing the locales before mounting does not help and AFAIK there is no
> mount option to force the usage of unicode.
> 
> So is it possible with MM to access utf-8 filenames? If not, how do I
> find out which cdrom based linux distributions use utf-8 by default?

i don't know the answer. AFAIK different programs handle this
differently.

for gtk based programs, the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
allows non-utf8 filenames, utf8 filenames being the default.