Re: Invalid Unicode

[Gábor Farkas <gabor z10n net>]

William Lovaton wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using Fedora Core 3 with the es_CO locale.  When I mount a Windows
> share through Linux (not smb in gnome-vfs because I can't use it ATM)
> and when I browse it with nautilus I get lots of files and directories
> with special chars like ligatures and tildes (áóúñÑ) with the sign "?"
> and the string "(Invalid unicode)" attached to the end of the file.
>
> And because of this OpenOffice and Gnumeric can't open the documents in
> there.  the only one that can is AbiWord but it can't work with .XLS
> files so I need OO or Gnumeric.
>
> What kind of option can I use to solve this.  I configured the share
> in /etc/fstab
nautilus wants to have everything in utf8.

look into 'man smbmount'...

there are 2 switches relevant here:

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iocharset=<arg>

sets the charset used by the Linux side for codepage to  charset
translations  (NLS).  Argument  should be the name of a charset,
like iso8859-1. (Note: only kernel 2.4.0 or later)

codepage=<arg>

sets the codepage the server uses. See the iocharset option. Ex-
ample value cp850. (Note: only kernel 2.4.0 or later)
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so basically iocharset should be set to the thing you use, and codepage 
to the thing that the server uses (imho).

i haven't tested them, because i don't have access to a samba share 
right now, but i assume something like this should work:

smbmount //remoteserver/share1 /home/user/localdir -o 
iocharset=UTF-8,codepage=serverEncoding

where serverEncoding is the encoding used on the server.

gabor