Ubunu - Linux - Unicode - encoding

[Franz Steinhäusler]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:12:45 +0100, Alan Franzoni
<alan.franzoni_invalid at geemail.invalid> wrote:

>Il Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:57:53 +0100, Franz Steinhäusler ha scritto:
>
>> If I copy files with german umlauts (äöü and strong 's' ß), these
>> filenames are not copied properly, and that characters are replaces
>> by little square symbols.
>
>Yes... I, myself, am italian, and I found no problem in using accented
>letter (òèàìù). Since you say there's a problem as well in Nautilus and
>other Ubuntu software, I suppose there's something wrong with your linux
>setup, not with Python.
>
>Or, at least: you should try solving that problem first, then check what
>happens with python.
>
>Try appending this options in your fstab as hda1 mount options:
>
>iocharset=iso8859-15
>
>unmount & remount and check what does happen.


Thank you again, I will give it a try!
-- 
Franz Steinhaeusler