Randy McMurchy wrote:
5. All the stuff about code sets and locale info was pulled out of the HAL instructions as it all had to do with the fstab-sync program which is no longer used. Should this stuff be included elsewhere in the HAL instructions?
I don't have GNOME installed, and thus can't check. The mount options can still be set in the policy file, but this doesn't work with setups involving pmount (it filters out everything except exec/noexec, atime/noatime, sync/async, and umask). It does try to guess the iocharset parameter, but does it wrong (correctly passes "iocharset=utf8" in UTF-8 based locales, but incorrectly passes nothing in other locales). In the forums, it is suggested to either recompile the kernel so that the default iocharset and codepage options are correct, or move pmount to pmount.real and create a shell script wrapper that adds the correct "-c some-iocharset" option.
The other mount programs have their own oddities. You can check them yourself by looking at /proc/mounts and trying to make the correct iocharset appear there.
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