On Dec 26, 2007 7:40 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How can I mount an SD card (via USB card reader) to have a specific
> filename encoding on Ubuntu Feisty 7.04? My laptop is UTF-8, but the
> SD card in my Nokia 6288 seems to be CP1255 or ISO-8859-8. The Hebrew
> filenames show up as question marks, not letters. So if on the Nokia I
> make three directories on the card:
> EnglishDir
> תיקייהעברית
> עודאחד2
>
> Then this is what I see on my laptop:
> EnglishDir
> ???????????
> ??????2
>
> What mount command should I use? I read man mount and I see no mention
> of encodings. The card is Fat32, formated by me on a windows machine.
>
> $ sudo mount -o codepage=1225,iocharset=iso8859-8,utf8 -t vfat
> /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>      missing codepage or other error
>      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>      dmesg | tail  or so
>

How about this? You should try it

$ sudo mount -o codepage=cp1225,iocharset=utf8 -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
$ sudo mount -o utf8 -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
$ sudo mount -o iocharset=utf8 -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb

As you can see, change some options, maybe this will help you

Nickel Cobalt

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