kern/131743: utf-8 file names of ext2 partitions cause problems

[Elmar Stellnberger]

>Number:         131743
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       utf-8 file names of ext2 partitions cause problems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 16 12:30:00 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Elmar Stellnberger
>Release:        7.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD scaleo.studiob 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan  1 14:37:25 UTC 2009     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
FreeBSD refuses to mount ext2 partitions with the iocharset=utf8 and utf8 options. The consequence are not only wrongly displayed file names. It causes difficulties accessing files: f.i. VLC media player refuses to open such files.

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>Fix:


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