Umlauts Displayed As Special Characters in FAT Partitions
Support knowledgebase (didge_mount_umlaute)
Applies to
SuSE Linux: All versions
Symptom
German umlauts (two dots placed over vowels) are displayed as special characters in mounted FAT partitions or
on FAT floppy disks.
Cause
mount uses a wrong ISO set.
Solution
You must enter the right option, e.g. iocharset=iso8859-1 for floppy disks, in the file /etc/fstab
.
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
After doing this, the umlauts will be properly displayed on FAT floppy disks.
Do the same for the Windows partitions you want to mount.
The following command can be used to mount FAT partitions manually:
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt -o iocharset=iso8859-1
In this example, /dev/hdb1 is mounted to /mnt.
Keywords: FAT, FAT32, VFAT, VFAT32, MOUNT, UMLAUT, DEUTSCH, GERMAN, SPECIAL CHARACTER
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- Version: 19. Jun 2002
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