hal and locale

[Patryk Zawadzki]

2008/6/1 Jethro Tull <heavytull at hotmail.com>:
> I would like to know how HAL handles locale.
>
> When i mount ntfs partitions through the media:/ interface in konqueror
> there are files that i can't see in the drive. That's because their names
> contain some special characters that are specific to my locale. But when I
> mount the partition with command line then it's ok. It means that HALd does
> not use the LANG env variable.
> anyone knows about that?

HAL is a system-wide service. Therefore it has no access to your local
environment. It's up to the mounting application to provide the right
combination of mounting options. That'd be gnome-mount, pmount or
something else depending on your desktop.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution