I've found a probably related bug in 8.04 Hardy Heron. In my case, it's my friend's flashdisk and a Japanese characters. They showed up as "white question marks inside a black diamond" and a note in parentheses that says something about encoding (forget the exact wording).
My friend is a windows user. -- Question symbols (????) in filenames on CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125220 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs