problem with locales between RedHat9 and Win2000

[Louis Coilliot]

Hello,

I've got a problem with unicode and/or european locales on RedHat 9 when I copy files from a Windows 2000 server

There is a problem with accentuated characters in files (éêûô etc...)

My method is:
- I mount a windows share with smbmount
- Then I synchronise files of this share localy


Example:
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "2003/Chrono courrier/COURRIER PAR
CLIENT/Caisse de cong~Bs pay~Bs": Invalid argument (2)

I should have: "congés payés" and not "cong~Bs pay~Bs"

For some files it is impossible to make the copy (when the accents are on capital letters, for example)

My locales are LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=fr_FR@euro

I thought Windows2000 was in unicode, and UTF8 is unicode (did I miss something ?)


I tried to get back with LANG=fr_FR@euro, but it does not work either

Anyway, on system messages, I also got strange characters instead of some accents.

It's better (not perfect) on Mandrake, but I don't know why.

any suggestion

[Marcin Golembski_1 · Accepted solution]

I think you might need to use 'iocharset=' and 'codepage=' options of smbmount command.

[Louis Coilliot]

That's it. It works perfectly, thanks.

[Louis Coilliot]

Thanks to Marcin Golembski