Hi guys, need your help again:

My case is this: I have a dead harddrive, because I mixed up windowsXP and ubuntu on the same drive, so it crashes...nvm...and I can't even reformat C drive and install windows onto it..any windows...nvm...

I use Konopix live CD, and get access to the file systems on the harddisk....but because most of the files are using chinese names, which konopix can not handle, so I switched to Ubuntu Live CD, and chose Chinese Simplied as system language....

The thing is: I can view Chinese file names on my removable USB harddisk, but when I mount the local harddisk to /mnt/drive2, and access through drive2, all the chinese names appears to be ??? only..

Is there any setting for the command "mount", or any one have any idea how to handle it.

Thanks a lot.

It could be the file system on the local drive does not have support for unicode file names, but the USB drive file system does have unicode support for file names. In any event, each character is represented by a number, so if you copy a file to a file system with unicode support for filenames, Chinese characters are unicode, the filename should remain intact. You can use a terminal program called rxvt to try and read the filenames. That is a fully unicode compliant terminal, and fairly common.