Re: which locale

["Wei Hu" <feelingwei@gmail.com>]

Actually I have no filename problems when I mount NTFS/VFAT
partitions. But I can NOT properly display some .torrent files which I
downloaded from the Internet. It may use non-utf8 codes such as
gb18030 or gb2812 code.
Can't Unicode handles non-Unicode filenames?

On 8/13/06, Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:
> Hello Wei Hu.
>
> > Which locale should I use? I am using en_US.utf8 as the default
> > locale. but when I do $ls to display non-English file name or
> > directory. I get something like ???????? ((invalid Unicode).
>
> That's odd. I encountered no problems when I switched to *.UTF-8 myself. All filenames
> kept working.
>
> Where do these problems occur? Did you mount a device not encoded with UTF–8? I did when I
> mounted my NTFS partitions. Using the „nls" option for mounting made everything allright
> again.
>
>
> Regards, Mathias