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Re: Windows character sets and Linux



Kristian Niemi said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:51:33PM +0200:
> I had that problem when mounting a windows partition.
> 
> Solved it by adding, in my case, 'iocharset=iso8859-15' to fstabs; i.e. 
> mounting it with that option. Don't know which charset is the proper one 
> for american english though; iso8859-1? Apostrophes, quotes, 
> scandinavian characters (åäö), etc.,  are showing up just as they're 
> supposed to do now.
> 
> I don't think it has anything to do with the locale, as such, since I 
> had the locale set up properly (I hope), but simply telling mount how to 
> mount it properly.

Windows gets iso-8859-1 (ie, Latin-1) wrong.  See
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/> for details.

As far as I know, there's no way to force Linux (or other systems) to use the
broken character set.

M

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