[fixed] German Umlauts are broken on an external disk

Hi!
I am having the problem that the german Umlauts (üäöß) are broken on my external hard drive.
That's for example the folder "Hörbücher" -> "Hörbücher" or "Herbert Grönemeyer" -> "Herbert Grönemeyer"
I had this problem before (when i switched on SuSE from KDE3 to KDE4), the solution back then was to convert all filenames on the disk to UTF-8 (they were ISO-8859-1 before).
Problem now is: They already are, still the names are broke (after i installed Arch but keeping KDE4).
When i try to convert the files with
convmv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -r /media/disk/*
I get back:
Skipping, already UTF-8: /media/disk/videos/musikvideos/Hannes_Wader___Viel_zu_schade_für_mich1972.flv
Which is logical, because the already ARE UTF-8.
So - how can i repair the filenames now?
When i start convmv it says this:
bash-3.2# convmv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -r /media/disk/*
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "de",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "de_DE.utf8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Your Perl version has fleas #37757 #49830
Starting a dry run without changes...
Skipping, already UTF-8: /media/disk/musik/Hörbücher
No changes to your files done. Use --notest to finally rename the files.
bash-3.2#
The part of my rc.conf concerning my locale is this:
LOCALE="de_DE.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
Last edited by haukew (2009-01-07 12:26:20)

Hi!
Thanks for your answer.
First, this is the output:
$ echo $LANG
de_DE.utf8
$ set | grep LC_
LC_COLLATE=C
$
And - yes, the lines were (actually all lines were...) commented out, i must have forgotten this when i set up the machine
I just changed it and ran locale-gen and will now restart - let's see...
@filesystem: Sorry, i just didn't see that, i was quite tired when i posted my second post
It's ext3
[edit] Yep, that did it - everything works now - thanks a lot!
Last edited by haukew (2009-01-07 12:27:38)

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