On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:11, Peter Boy wrote:
There are still some probs due to the system wide usage of uft8. One
of
them is addressed in bug 107834 regarding characters above ascii 128 in
Filenames (e.g. samba shares with windows clients).
Still same problem with latest kernel from rawhide (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl).
You have to manually edit /etc/fstab and add iocharset=utf8 for vfat,
ntfs, jfs or joliet cdroms.
Note that smbfs also needs setting codepage=cp850 (or equal
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT in kernel) to get all letters right.
Also, that does not fix Nautilus that still shows wrong letters on
smb-shares, since it has other bugs. See #106733.
Similar problems arise, if you use evolution to exchange mail with a
windows user and even with a linux guy not using Red Hat. Characters
above ascii 128 look "silly" and are unreadable.
Evolution has setting to send mail with iso-8859-1/15.
Tools->Settings->Mail pref.->Default character encoding. This is not so
big issue with since all modern mailreaders handle mime-headers, even
outlook.
Of course, you can change the system default in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
to
use another locale.
Many still do, since utf-8 doesn't work reliably enough from
out-of-the-box. (Ever tried nano on UTF-8 system? bug: #101856)
Especially I've seen many people complain about corrupted letters on
windows drives.