Re: Windows character sets and Linux

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:51:33 +0200, 
Kristian Niemi <rance@mbnet.fi> wrote in message 
<[🔎] bqi215$kuf$1@nyytiset.pp.htv.fi>:
> 
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things
> > like apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I
> > believe this is a problem with character sets in Windows versus
> > Linux. I'm assuming that if I include the proper "locale" in Linux,
> > this problem will go away. Does anyone know how to solve this, and
> > what the character set is which Windows uses (in American English)?
>  
> 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.
 
..æ and ø too?  Does anyone use iocharset=utf8 or -16 ok?

> 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.

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