Hi,

I've a dual boot system and want to access my Windows partitions from Linux. Those partitions (2 ntfs, 2 vfat) are available in KDE4 and I can simply use them. But the umlauts on the vfat partitions are wrong.
Manually adding entries to fstab with the utf8 mount-option works, but makes mounting via HAL/Dolphin impossible.

What's interesting is that my flash drive (vfat) is mounted with iocharset=utf8 (though upon mount dmesg says "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!", so here utf8 would also be better).

I tried the whole day to configure hal but KDE seems to ignore hal's config. But still, from the difference in internal HD and external flash stick it looks there must be some way to configure the mount options used by KDE (besides fstab).

Regards,
Robert

Hi Robert,

I have problems with umlauts in kde4, too. Umlauts on automounted USB-Sticks or CDs are shown incorrect and dolphin isn't able to work with it. Dolphin clames that files not exist. (kubuntu 8.04 with kde4-backports and kubuntu 8.10)
I searched through the web and post two results here.

Here's a bug report about dolphin, smb and umlauts on bugs.kde.org:
Bug 155816: smb files and folders with umlauts

The next one is from the german ubuntu forum ubuntuuser.de. It contain a workaround for udev. But after this workaround unmounting is only available from shell and admin rights. Not satisfying.
ubuntuuser.de: KDE4: USB Automount mit falschen Optionen

Of course editing fstab is still possible, but I'm searching about an HAL/automount solution. A few people encounter problems with german umlauts and kde4 (konqueror/dolphin), but there seems to be no fix so far?

Regards,
Chrisch