AMD64 Issue with russian symbols on FAT32

Jung-uk Kim jkim at niksun.com
Tue Mar 8 19:49:47 GMT 2005


On Sunday 06 March 2005 04:17 pm, Seva Fwd wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I have installed FreeBSD/amd64 from February 2005
> snapshot (5.3-STABLE-SNAP001-amd64-miniinst.iso) and
> have issues with Russian symbols support on FAT32
> partitions.
> I am using options -Lru_RU.KOI8-R,-Wkoi2dos in
> /etc/fstab to turn support of Russian file names on.
> If I mount partition without these options everithing
> works well except Russian names are unavailable.
> However, if I mount partition with these options it
> does not help with Russian names, and even more
> english names becomes abracadabra.
> I think it is issue of amd64 (i.e. 64/32
> incompatibility). I suspect iconv.
> I am sure partitions itself are correct due to same
> partitions (I mean same hdd and usd disks) are
> operating well on i386 arch. And even a (Frenzy) Live
> CD that is i386 arch works well on the same computer.

--- >8 --- SNIP!!! --- >8 ---

[Note: Sorry, I am moving this thread to freebsd-amd64.]

kiconv interface is broken on amd64 (maybe all 64-bit architectures).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75488
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?234888ec05020723464ec9cf39

Is there anybody working on this?

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim


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