[Bug 498744] Re: UTF-8 filesystem hosed by banshee

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Monday 28,December,2009 12:36 PM, EricW at Hamburg wrote:
> The filesystem was a ext2 utf-8 on a nas that is shared with cifs to the
> banshee machine. Lots of files get C64 graphic chars, questionmarks and
> (ungültige Kodierung) extensions to their names. Cifs was mounted with
> defaults on ubuntu, maybe there is some kind of conversion? This is the
> smb.conf from the nas
> 
> [ global ]
> interfaces = egiga0
> unix charset = UTF8
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
> netbios name = Tuxstore
> server string = Files and Sound
> hosts allow = 
> hosts deny = 
> security = SHARE
> encrypt passwords = yes
> max log size = 0
> 
I'm not very familiar with cifs mounted shares, but could you try creating a
file with the correct name, encoded in UTF-8 on some local filesystem, then
copying it over to the CIFS share and seeing if that works? I find it quite hard
to believe that Banshee is at fault here.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

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UTF-8 filesystem hosed by banshee
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