hal and locale

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Monday 02 June 2008, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 16:28 +0000, Jethro Tull wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> I think you just need to configure your locale system-wide.
> Alternatively have KDE pass the appropriate mount options (e.g.
> iocharset and codepage) corresponding to your locale.

if it were as simple :(

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133456
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