Storage device name with non-english character is cut off

[Charles]

I named my USB flash drive with non-english characters: "CLÉ USB". When I plug it in, it is mounted as expected, but the name on my Gnome desktop is cut off: "CL". If you want to reproduce the bug, you can grab a USB flash drive, rename it to "CLÉ USB", unmount it and plug it back in. Please note: This USB flash drive was formated and names in Windows Vista. Maybe it's a character set issue? Maybe some piece of software isn't compiled using UTF-8, or some of its source code was saved using a different character set...
Thanks,

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updated Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

[Charles (landemaine)]

Hello,

Yes, I'm using Maverick but the problem is still here. If I format a USB flash drive with the name "CLÉ USB" in Windows 7, when I connect it to my Ubuntu computer, the name is cut off at the character "É" (see attachment).
Thank you,

Charles.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Charles
looks like another case of the assumption of CP437 encoding causing issues, which is related to an unfixable underlying design issue in FAT.
Thanks

[Charles (landemaine)]

Thanks. Is there a way to use latin characters in device names somehow, then?

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