From: Ray Lambert <listlizard_at_interthingy.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:04:48 -0500 (EST)

Stephan Seitz wrote:
> The other reason *has* to do with playing music: As a linux only user,
> many oggs of mine have characters which are not valid in vfat (or even
> ntfs), but perfectly valid in ext2, reiser or other modern filesystems.
> So I can't even simply copy my music from my linux box to the player but
> have to change filenames (what means I can't simply sync both
> repositories).

Is this true even using the utf8 option (to the vfat driver)?

I mount my vfat partitions with the utf8 option and I can see all
characters. Granted, I'm an English-speaking-type and I don't use many
extended characters but I though fat32/vfat supported full unicode.

~ray
Received on 2005-12-08