Hello,

I have a problem with non-English characters on filenames of files stored on my USB drive, which is automatically mounted by HAL. They're replaced by '?' (e.g. 'música' becomes 'm?sica') and the files are not accessible.

When I mount manually my USB drive, however, passing the 'utf8' argument for mount, the filenames are OK! So I think I just need to get HAL into mounting my drive (and any other USB drives formatted as FAT32) with 'utf8' parameter.

I, however, don't know how to do that on the HAL configurations files.

Any suggestions?

I'm using Arch Linux, and I use Thunar running as daemon (thunar --daemon).

Thanks!

I think you can simply add an entry for your usb into /etc/fstab with the options you want. Use the UUID instead of /dev/sdxn, if you don't want it to apply to all devices you connect.

Fixed it.

Actually, it's not the duty of HAL to send parameters to mount, instead it is from the application (in this case, Thunar).

I edited /etc/xdg/xfce4/mount.rc and added iocharset=utf8 to the [vfat] category. Now it works.

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Interesting. I thought that since the application is run by user, and root is required by mount, the application wouldn't be able to invoke mount by itself.

So I thought maybe the call to mount went via HAL or something. Does it not work to do the changes to /etc/fstab?

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Thank, you! That is awesome. Now it works for me too.