Re: Arabic letters for folder/file names

[Mohammad Halawah <mhalawah at gmail dot com>]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 19:18, M. Yaser Houri wrote:
> As'salam alikom Mohammad,
Walekum assalam akhy Yaser,

> To be able to read  files/Folders with arabic names, you've to
> change the value of "isocharset" in "/etc/fstab".
> the isocharset value is by default set to "iso8859-1" and it is not
> exist in "/etc/fstab" options. You have to add it set its value to
> "utf8". The following line shows you how to do that:
> /dev/hda1       /media/hda1     vfat
> umask=000,shortname=mixed,quiet,iocharset=utf8 0       0
This is true when I want to mount a windof file system to my Linux, but 
anyway thanks for the tip.

> There is also a useful document:
> http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/howto/arabic-howto-en/
I went to the documentation but it seams old OR I am a special case. 
coz I have tried what is there, but did not help. For example, it sazs 
that konsole work out of the box with arabic fonts, but that wasn't 
the case.

From your email account, I deduced that you are in Germany, I am in 
Heidelberg.
 
> As'salam alikom
> Yaser...

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Mohammad
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