[filesystem iocharset] filenames in Cyrillic are not read properly on fat32 FS

[Miroslav Hadzhiev]

Files with filenames in Cyrillic (Bulgarian in my case) which are stored on a FAT32 partition cannot be read and Nautilus shows only question marks instead of Cyrillic letters (for example, "???? ??????????.doc"). Maybe UTF8 iocharset should be used explicitly in '/etc/fstab'.

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

There is something more. If the file is on the root partition (which is 'ext4') and not on a 'fat32' partition, the file can be read and the filename is properly shown in Nautilus but if you try to send the file through 'Skype', Skype does not send it and only shows the filename which is wrong again. For example, the file "знам.doc" (in latin "znam.doc") is dropped over Skype, it is shown as "file:///home/miro/Documents/%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC.doc" and the file is not sent.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

There's nothing we can do about Skype.. it's closed-source.

About the FAT32 fs, my guess is that it's mounted with the wrong character encoding.

Can you paste the output of your /etc/fstab and the output of the "mount" command?

In this thread, people are talking about mount options, maybe that can help you in experimenting with different encodings: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/i-cant-read-cyrillic-names-of-files-on-win98-partition-mounted-in-slackware9-1-a-210833/

In the meantime, this will also affect Ubuntu so I'm marking this bug as upstream.

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

The bug is obviously invalid, Clem. (:
I made a new clean install and the 'fstab' file has different content now. And the problem does not occur any more.

And thanks for your quick answer! You're great, Clem!