hebrew letters in non-unicode vfat

[Shachar Shemesh]

Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> Hi,
>
First, the title.

There is no such thing "non-unicode vfat". FAT file systems comes in two 
flavors. One is the classic, pre-Windows 95, version, which only 
supported ASCII (no Hebrew at all). The other is the LFN extension to 
FAT, which is encoded in UTF-16 (i.e. - unicode). In other words, if the 
DoK has Hebrew names, they are in Unicode.
> I tried to read hebrew-named files and directories from a 
> vfat-formatted DOK, but default mounting shows question marks instead 
> of hebrew characters.
>
> I tried to use iocharset option of mount, with the same result. 
> Windows shows the names properly.
> mount -o iocharset=iso8859-8 /dev/sdc /mnt/dok
>
The "iocharset" mount option chooses which *local* encoding to convert 
the names on the disk, and should match your LC_CTYPE value (as shown by 
the "locale" command). In all likelyhood, your locale is set to UTF8, 
and this is what you need to give iocharset as well.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
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