I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in Chinese (I think).
If I umount /run/media/user and manually mount the dvd with
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
then the contents are in plain English, so I suspect it's a matter of configuration.
The locale is cat /etc/locale.conf LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
How is the dvd automounted and how do I configure that to use English?
Running Fedora 41, gnome 47.5.
Thanks!
On 5/19/25 10:28 AM, Amadeus WM via users wrote:
I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in Chinese (I think).
If I umount /run/media/user and manually mount the dvd with
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
then the contents are in plain English, so I suspect it's a matter of configuration.
The locale is cat /etc/locale.conf LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
How is the dvd automounted and how do I configure that to use English?
Running Fedora 41, gnome 47.5.
Thanks!
What file managers are you using? Have you tried other file managers?
I had something similar to this. I had a text file that had a flyer in it. Leaf pad would stop reading at the flyer. Gedit would render everything in Chinese. Wine's notepad rendered it fine.
After whacking the flyer (some UTF-16 character I presume), everyone was happy.
On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 17:28 +0000, Amadeus WM via users wrote:
I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in Chinese (I think).
If I umount /run/media/user and manually mount the dvd with
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
then the contents are in plain English, so I suspect it's a matter of configuration.
That's not something that I've ever seen.
I am curious if you mean that it'd a bilingual disc, and it gives the filenames in different languages? Or if it's simply displaying the filenames with the wrong characters (making gibberish words)?
It could be an issue of the disc being originally mastered in a different character encoding confusing things.
On Wed, 21 May 2025 00:18:14 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 5/19/25 10:28 AM, Amadeus WM via users wrote:
I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in Chinese (I think).
If I umount /run/media/user and manually mount the dvd with
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
then the contents are in plain English, so I suspect it's a matter of configuration.
The locale is cat /etc/locale.conf LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
How is the dvd automounted and how do I configure that to use English?
Running Fedora 41, gnome 47.5.
Thanks!
What file managers are you using? Have you tried other file managers?
I had something similar to this. I had a text file that had a flyer in it. Leaf pad would stop reading at the flyer. Gedit would render everything in Chinese. Wine's notepad rendered it fine.
After whacking the flyer (some UTF-16 character I presume), everyone was happy.
I'm not using any file managers, I do everything on the command line
cd /run/media/<user>/<cdname> ls
On Wed, 21 May 2025 20:10:26 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 17:28 +0000, Amadeus WM via users wrote:
I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in Chinese (I think).
If I umount /run/media/user and manually mount the dvd with
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
then the contents are in plain English, so I suspect it's a matter of configuration.
That's not something that I've ever seen.
I am curious if you mean that it'd a bilingual disc, and it gives the filenames in different languages? Or if it's simply displaying the filenames with the wrong characters (making gibberish words)?
It could be an issue of the disc being originally mastered in a different character encoding confusing things.
It's the latter. I created that disk myself many years back to save some data on it and there were no problems with the cd back then (probably fedora <= 10). And, again, if I mount it manually with mount -t iso9660 it does display correctly. I really have no idea where the Chinese characters come from.
On 5/21/25 8:13 PM, Amadeus WM via users wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2025 00:18:14 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 5/19/25 10:28 AM, Amadeus WM via users wrote:
I'm going through some cd/dvds with data going back to my graduate school years and when I put them in the dvd drive they get auto mounted fine under /run/media/user, except that the directory contents are listed in Chinese (I think).
If I umount /run/media/user and manually mount the dvd with
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
then the contents are in plain English, so I suspect it's a matter of configuration.
The locale is cat /etc/locale.conf LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
How is the dvd automounted and how do I configure that to use English?
Running Fedora 41, gnome 47.5.
Thanks!
What file managers are you using? Have you tried other file managers?
I had something similar to this. I had a text file that had a flyer in it. Leaf pad would stop reading at the flyer. Gedit would render everything in Chinese. Wine's notepad rendered it fine.
After whacking the flyer (some UTF-16 character I presume), everyone was happy.
I'm not using any file managers, I do everything on the command line
cd /run/media/<user>/<cdname> ls
try running `mount` on both attach points and see what the difference is
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