Here another problem/bug I've discovered after switching my LANG to de_DE.utf8: Mounting a vfat/ntfs USB drive results in incorrect umlauts (ä,ö,ü) on the drive. Furthermore it is not possible to copy a file with umlaut in it's filename to the drive. Everything works fine if the drives are manually mounted with mount option "utf8". As said here: http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php?topic=13427.0 The problem doesn't exist in Gnome. So I guess it perhaps is a Thunar/XFCE problem :-/
Here is another description for this bug: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=298813 And a patch for exo-mount: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/attachment.cgi?id=2029&action=diff Perhaps it solves the problem?
As far as I see, it's sort of duplicate of bug #2891 (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2891)
I've discovered the same problem on 3 different computers again. 2 of them have XFCE 4.4.2 and one 4.5.90 installed. root[Desktop]# mount /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdb2 on /media/multimedia type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdc1 on /media/TREKSTOR type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) The TREKSTOR drive has no utf8 mount option set :-\ - As far as I can tell there are no problems with vfat partitions - Mounting by command line works fine without any utf8 options I guess the problem was solved for vfat but not for ntfs.
I'm having the same problem with el_GR.utf8 and greek characters. The filesystem is not mounted with utf8 as it should. The problem is specific to xfce as it works right in gnome or when mounting manually with urf8.
Have same problems with ru_RU.utf8
Bug is still there with xfce 4.6.1 and thunar 1.0.1.
Since exo 0.3.102 we set the iocharset, see bug #4294. This might fix this issues too.
I won't enable utf8 by default, but you can change this in the rc file in the next release of exo, see bug #2891. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2891 ***
*** Bug 3868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***