[hafqa] [hafqa] [Bug 3779] ke-recv should use locale-dependent encoding for mmc mounting

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3779





------- Comment #3 from eero.tamminen at nokia.com  2008-10-09 19:21 GMT+3 -------
Hm. I just tested this:
- /media/mmc1# mkdir ööää
- /media/mmc1# mkdir ÖÖÄÄ
mkdir: cannot create directory 'ÖÖÄÄ': File exists

I.e. this works also for Finnish characters in the device itself.


>> The problem occurs because the card is mounted with options
>> codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,utf8. In fact, iocharset has no meaning
>> if utf8 is set, but cp437 gives the encoding for short names, and since
>> cp437 has no representation for cyrillic glyphs it will translate the short
>> name to something unexpected 

As already discussed, the short names shouldn't be really an issue (nobody uses
FAT anymore).  However, above doesn't explain why Busybox doesn't complain that
the file already exists for cyrillic, so I started to wonder what could be the
reason... Broken Busybox (wouldn't be anything new, but in this case, complain
to upstream), broken Russian collation tables in C-library, some issue in
kernel?

Whether this is Busybox fault could be tested by installing some other shell,
like Bash (I think it's in the SDK repos).


> In fact, I would be happy if the codepage used would be configurable even
> with some setting in gconf (or in some file anyway). I think that's easy to
> implement, and I understand that this is not a feature that deserves to take
> much of developer's time.

I didn't find where this is set (Kimmo?), but as a workaround you could just 
remount the memory card with settings suitable for you.  (mount -o remount...)


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