Ubuntu filename encoding - UTF8?

[Gábor Iglói]

Hello!

How does Ubuntu handle characters in filenames? Does it use UTF-8?

I'm Hungarian so I use the Hungarian localised Ubuntu. I have some
problems with filenames containing áéőúűóüöí "special" (don't know
what they are called in Engish) characters. My filesystems are vfat
(communicating with an English Windows XP) and an ext3. I have some
files/folders containing "special" characters and Nautilus calles them
for example "n?vtelen mappa (invalid encoding)" (should be "névtelen
mappa" meaning New Folder in Hungarian). But if I create a NEW New
Folder it is called as it should be "névtelen mappa". So my old files
or files created with XP display incorrectly but files/folders created
by Ubuntu are correct. Also, with another Linux distribution I need to
mount my vfat with -o iocharset=iso8859-2 option to handle my
"special" characters correctly. But this doesn't work with Ubuntu
("special" characters won't display correctly on old files).

My distrib is Hoary Hedgehog BTW.