UTF8 in NTFS from boot

lightkuragari · 07-18-2009, 09:21 PM

Hi all, i'm using slackware 12.2 and i have 2 NTFS partitions mounted. Both were added to fstab in the setup process, and I modified fstab to add iocharset=utf8. Then i re-mounted the partitions and i could see all my files and directories.

However, the next time i turned on my box, i found out the partitions weren't showing those files and directories with special characters, so each time i reboot i have to

umount /ntfspartition && mount /ntfspartition

after this, i can see those files again. My question is, why they don't get mounted from the beginning with the utf8 charset? it seems at boot time, fstab setting "iocharset=utf8" is completely ignored.

Does anyone know why is this?

niels.horn · 07-19-2009, 02:08 PM

Check this thread for a solution...

lightkuragari · 07-19-2009, 08:38 PM

Thanks niels.horn, i-ll try that... i solved it on my laptop without setting the locale param, instead i commented LANG=en_US and added LANG=es_MX.UTF-8 in /etc/profiles.d/lang.sh and that did the trick, besides i upgraded to ntfs-3g-2009-4-4, since full utf8 support for ntfs-3g was released since version 2009-1-1, and slack 12.2 ships with 1.15, and that did the trick.

However, i have the same issue in my desktop pc... i'll try just setting the locale param and see what happens. I'll post back the results.

Thank you!!

P.S. If anyone would like to upgrade to the new version of ntfs-3g, just remember to backup your /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-ntfs-3g-policy.fdi before removing ntfs-3g package, because it gets deleted after that, and you'll need to copy it back if you install from source.

lightkuragari · 07-19-2009, 08:48 PM

I'm back with the results...

Without doing nothing besides setting the locale param in /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/sdb1 /lightkuragari ntfs-3g umask=022,locale=es_MX.UTF-8

and after that:

umount /lightkuragari && mount /lightkuragari

what i get is the missing directories showing up this time, however accents are displayed as a 2 letter code like
ImÃ¡genes instead of Imágenes (as you may guess, or know, that's "images" in spanish), but i guess this is due to the system locale, which is still en_US and thunar displays those names that way, so i guess this is a solved matter. Thanks!!

lightkuragari · 07-19-2009, 08:52 PM

Forgot to mention...

USB ntfs devices need to get mounted automatically with the same locale, so, that's why i still need to set the global locale. Could there be another way to achieve this?

Bruce Hill · 07-19-2009, 09:08 PM

Maybe I don't understand, my first dialect being Redneck.

Have you set this file up:

Code:

root@silas64:~# cat /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Set the system locale.  (no, we don't have a menu for this ;-)
# For a list of locales which are supported by this machine, type:
#   locale -a

# en_US is the Slackware default locale:
#export LANG=en_US

# 'C' is the old Slackware (and UNIX) default, which is 127-bit
# ASCII with a charmap setting of ANSI_X3.4-1968.  These days,
# it's better to use en_US or another modern $LANG setting to
# support extended character sets.
#export LANG=C

# There is also support for UTF-8 locales, but be aware that
# some programs are not yet able to handle UTF-8 and will fail to
# run properly.  In those cases, you can set LANG=C before
# starting them.  Still, I'd avoid UTF unless you actually need it.
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Another option for en_US:
#export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1

# One side effect of the newer locales is that the sort order
# is no longer according to ASCII values, so the sort order will
# change in many places.  Since this isn't usually expected and
# can break scripts, we'll stick with traditional ASCII sorting.
# If you'd prefer the sort algorithm that goes with your $LANG
# setting, comment this out.
export LC_COLLATE=C

# End of /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

You can also use one for normal users in your ~/ directory:

Code:

mingdao@silas64:~$ cat .profile
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

lightkuragari · 07-19-2009, 09:41 PM

Oh! i didn't know that. Thanks, Bruce. Well, that way i won't need to set the whole system locale, and i suppose it still works with usb ntfs-3g auto mounted units.