Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:53:55 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:

> 2011/6/24 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> 
>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
>>
>> > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't
>> > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when
>> > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of
>> > brazilian, french and italian music has plenty of accented chars in
>> > filenames).
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> For this kind of weird issues, what it usually helps is mounting the
>> device manually (with "mount" command) and trying to write a file in
>> there, also, from command line. Hopefully the error you get can shed
>> some light on the problem.

> the device is being mounted correctly so no error is reported, but I
> still can't create/write filenames with accented chars.

Put here the output you get when you try to save a file with accented 
characters on its filename, but do it from command line, do not use GUI 
applications because sometimes, more than helping, quietly silence the 
underlaying problem.

For instance:

sm01@stt008:~$ echo sample > áéíóú.txt
sm01@stt008:~$ file áéíóú.txt
áéíóú.txt: ASCII text
sm01@stt008:~$ cat áéíóú.txt
sample

Greetings,

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Camaleón