fox2mike 05/07/04 06:21:14 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en utf-8.xml Log: #97827 - Info on FAT + utf-8. Thanks to Sebastian Roeder for reporting, Marcelo Goes for the patch.
Revision Changes Path 1.28 +21 -4 xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml?rev=1.28&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml?rev=1.28&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28&cvsroot=gentoo Index: utf-8.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml,v retrieving revision 1.27 retrieving revision 1.28 diff -u -r1.27 -r1.28 --- utf-8.xml 2 Jul 2005 11:55:16 -0000 1.27 +++ utf-8.xml 4 Jul 2005 06:21:14 -0000 1.28 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml,v 1.27 2005/07/02 11:55:16 swift Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/utf-8.xml,v 1.28 2005/07/04 06:21:14 fox2mike Exp $ --> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> <guide link="/doc/en/utf-8.xml"> @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> <license /> -<version>2.7</version> -<date>2005-07-02</date> +<version>2.8</version> +<date>2005-07-04</date> <chapter> <title>Character Encodings</title> @@ -341,7 +341,24 @@ <p> If you plan on mounting NTFS partitions, you may need to specify an <c>nls=</c> -option with mount. For more information, see <c>man mount</c>. +option with mount. If you plan on mounting FAT partitions, you many need to +specify a <c>codepage=</c> option with mount. Optionally, you can also set a +default codepage for FAT in the kernel configuration. Note that the +<c>codepage</c> option with mount will override the kernel settings. +</p> + +<pre caption="FAT settings in kernel configuration"> +File Systems --> + DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems --> + (437) Default codepage for fat +</pre> + +<p> +You should avoid setting <c>Default iocharset for fat</c> to UTF-8, as it is +not recommended. Instead, you may want to pass the option utf8=true when +mounting your FAT partitions. For further information, see <c>man mount</c> and +the kernel documentation at +<path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt</path>. </p> <p> -- [email protected] mailing list
