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Invalid unicode when copying from Windows shares

Asked by Sideburn

I just maneged to connect to my Windows XP file server

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/5808

but when I copy from it to Ubuntu, my swedish characters is replaced with question signs, and the info box complains about "invalid unicode".
This isn't the case when I use GNOME-VFS...

I use an (US) English installation of Ubuntu Feisty, maybe this is causing the trouble?

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question, to solve your problem you can put this line in your mount option:

iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp850

so your line became like:

//servername/share /media/example cifs credentials=/home/yourusername/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,ocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp850 0 0

Thanks

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Sideburn (sveggo) said : 		#2

Thanks for your effort, but the problem is still there... :-/

The WinXP installation on the other computer is Swedish, and have ntfs partitions, if that could be of any help?

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#3

//servername/share /media/example cifs credentials=/home/yourusername/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp850 0 0

I mistake before.

Sorry.

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Sideburn (sveggo) said : 		#4

No problem...
Unfortunatly that doesn't help either. :-/

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Best Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#5

try this:

//servername/share /media/example cifs credentials=/home/yourusername/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

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Sideburn (sveggo) said : 		#6

Thanks Massimo Forti, that solved my question.