[Utopia] Adding utf8 mount option when mounting vfat removable devices on UTF-8 systems

[Frederik Himpe <fhimpe telenet be>]

When a removable device, which is used also in Windows and other Linux 
systems, using vfat is mounted automatically by Gnome on my UTF-8 
Mandriva system, all special characters are shown incorrectly, because 
other OSes, especially Windows, use ISO8859-15. IIRC even the kernel 
warns that UTF-8 is not a recommended character set for vfat.

When the same device is mounted automatically by KDE, the utf8 mount 
option is used, and all characters are shown correctly. Should not gnome-
volume-manager be doing the same on vfat removable devices when the local 
system's locale is UTF-8? Or is there at least somewhere a configuration 
file where I can force it to add this option for such devices?

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Frederik Himpe