tags 413409 +patch thanks Hi Attached is a proposed text for the issue about non-ASCII chars in filenames which will probably still need some improvements, but it's a start... Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
Index: release-notes.en.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/debian-doc/ddp/manuals.sgml/release-notes/en/release-notes.en.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.175 diff -u -r1.175 release-notes.en.sgml --- release-notes.en.sgml 27 Mar 2007 12:08:33 -0000 1.175 +++ release-notes.en.sgml 27 Mar 2007 19:28:00 -0000 @@ -1805,6 +1805,17 @@ </p> </sect1> ]]> + <sect1 name="partitionenc"><heading>Problems with non-ASCII characters in filenames</heading> + <p> + Mounting vfat, ntfs or iso9660 filesystems with files that include + non-ASCII characters in their filenames will give failures when one + tries to use the filenames unless mounting is done with the utf8 + option. An indication might be the following failure: 'Invalid or + incomplete multibyte or wide character'. A possible solution is to + use defaults,utf8 as mount options for vfat, ntfs and iso9660 + filesystems when they contain filenames with non-ASCII characters. + </p> + </sect1> </sect>
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