[SOLVED!] On USB drives, problems with non-English chars and HAL

Hello,
I am having a problem with non-English caracters (áãàçéẽê...) on files stored on my USB drive.
On Windows they're created with the correct name. But on Linux the files have the non-English characteres replaced by '?' and are not accessible.
If I manuallly mount the drives using 'mount -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk' the characters are OK, so I think I just need to get HAL to pass the correct parameters to mount. However I don't know how to do that, and haven't found any good solution.
I tried to build a custom kernel setting the default charset as UTF-8 and it didn't work.
Any ideas? I'm using x86-64, HAL 0.5.13-3 and my locale is pt-BR.UTF-8.
Thanks!
EDIT: Actually, this is not a HAL problem, but a problem with 'exo'. For the solution, I edited /etc/xdg/xfce4/mount.rc and added iocharset=utf8 to the [vfat] category.
Last edited by Renan Birck (2009-11-28 20:54:23)

I don't use Thunar presently, but I looked in the Thunar Volume Manager doc and I didn't find anything to change the mount options of removable drives. I am not quite sure if it's possible or not. Maybe someone using it can tell for sure.
But if it is not possible to change the mount options, a possible solution is to disable the Thunar Volume Manager plugin and to use something else more configurable to manage the automount function.
Personally I use the halevt package from AUR which uses configuration files in the xml format.
It's not so easy to use but is highly configurable.
But there exists other tools also.
I can help you with halevt if you choose that way...

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Java : 1.5.0_07
Hi,
i have an Swing application that reads data from a database and shows them in a swing GUI. The text returned by the database is in Arabic and saved in a TextField object.
But once printed, the arabic chars are screwed up.or actually they r not arabic chars at all!!
For debugging i also write the result of the query in the console and in a log4j log file.
There, it is printed in the right form.
here the code:
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Looks like i've to tell Swing to use MacRoman, which is the default of the OS and
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Any clue??
Thanks,
Chris.

convert your strings to unicode:
example 1
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import java.awt.event.*;
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    extends Frame {
public ApplicationFrame() { this("ApplicationFrame v1.0"); }
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    int y = (screenSize.height - frameSize.height) / 2;
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example2
Java Internationalization
By Andy Deitsch, David Czarnecki
ISBN: 0-596-00019-7
O'Reilly
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.text.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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static JFrame frame;
public ArabicDigits() {
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Problems with non-English character.

Hi
My problem is that '��' become rubbish in my c++ dll. I hope someone can help me.
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You will probably see the same rubbish if you try to print them to the console using java. Dos prompts usually have problems to print the Swedish characters. I don't know if this will affect your c++ dll or not. But you can specify the encoding for the JVM (-Dfile.encoding). For valid encodings see:
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[SOLVED] Non english chars kdemod 4 problem

Hello, I have a little problem with KDE and the non english charactes.
If I open a file with non english chars in its name I get something like this:
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Last edited by christian (2009-03-27 14:52:17)

SanskritFritz wrote:
That should be "es_ES.utf8"
Sorry, i mispelled it in the post.
Of course, my locale is es_ES.utf8:
LANG=es_ES.utf8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.utf8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.utf8"
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I don't think this could be the source of the problem, because, except in the places I said in the firs post, the rest of my system works perfectly.

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