Re: locale on fedora for ISO-8859-1?

[Loic Domaigne]

> > Hello everybody
> >
> > I have a simple question regarding locale on Fedora core >= 5.
> >
> > I have a EXT2 filesystem with filenames encoded using ISO-8859-1:
> >
> > $ ls -b mnt/
> > [loic neumann ~]$ ls -b mnt/
> > A\304O\326\334\334.txt  try_\344\366\374.txt
> >
> > [loic neumann ~]$ ls mnt/ | iconv -f ISO_8859-1
> > AÄOÖÜÜ.txt
> > try_äöü.txt
> >
> > How should I set the locale so that the filenames are displayed correctly
> > (i.e. using ISO-8859-1 encoding)? With that appropriate setting, I'd like that 
> > the "ls mnt/" command shows:
> > AÄOÖÜÜ.txt
> > try_äöü.txt
>
> Why not convert the filenames into UTF8?
>
> yum install convmv
> convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -r mnt/
>
> Add --notest to convmv to do the actual conversion.

I can't. The EXT2 filesystem resides actually on a NAS that uses internally ISO-8859-1 for filenames enconding, not UTF-8. Changing to UTF-8 would mess things up.

Thanks, 
Loic.