Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:51:11 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Also is it possible that the characters are in the filename but they are not being displayed ?

I have US locale set to en_US.UTF-8 and accented characters work in filenames.

Brian