On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:53:55 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2011/6/24 Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> > >> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >> >> > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't >> > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when >> > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of >> > brazilian, french and italian music has plenty of accented chars in >> > filenames). >> >> (...) >> >> For this kind of weird issues, what it usually helps is mounting the >> device manually (with "mount" command) and trying to write a file in >> there, also, from command line. Hopefully the error you get can shed >> some light on the problem.
> the device is being mounted correctly so no error is reported, but I > still can't create/write filenames with accented chars. Put here the output you get when you try to save a file with accented characters on its filename, but do it from command line, do not use GUI applications because sometimes, more than helping, quietly silence the underlaying problem. For instance: sm01@stt008:~$ echo sample > áéíóú.txt sm01@stt008:~$ file áéíóú.txt áéíóú.txt: ASCII text sm01@stt008:~$ cat áéíóú.txt sample Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.27.11.19...@gmail.com
