FAT: IO charset ISO-8859-1 not found?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:11:02 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Bjørn T Johansen:
> > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11:03 +0100
> > Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In order to debug this problem, please tell me what locales you are
> > > using and what charset you want the stick to be mounted.
> > 
> > The locales I am using is en_US.ISO-8859-1 and the charset I use is
> > also ISO-8859-1 and want to use that for my sticks also..
> 
> Why en_US.ISO-8859-1 and not en_US.UTF-8? 
> 
> Red Hat/Fedora switched to UTF-8 in Red Hat 8, this was back in 2002.
> More than 7 years later, using ISO is not really a supported use case
> any longer. You must have configured this manually
> in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, because nether anaconda (the installer) nor
> system-config-language will allow you to set ISO.
> 
> > > And here is 105 for Fedora 11:
> > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=140571
> > > It's not yet in updates-testing, but will be tomorrow. 
> 
> For the record: This means you need to download the package to install
> it. Once it's in updates-testing you can install it with
> $ yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update exo
> 
> > Please give us
> > > some feedback at
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/exo-0.3.105-1.fc11
> > > 
> > > Last but not least I'd like to ask you to report errors like this one to
> > > bugzilla.redhat.com, because it makes tracking bugs and regressions
> > > easier for us. TIA!
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok, will try to remember that for the next time... :) Also, not sure
> > if I will have time to do some thorough testing before you release 105
> > but I'll see... Thx..
> 
> Usually updates are sitting in updates-testing for 1-2 weeks, so you
> should have enough of time.
> If you really want to continue using ISO, you need to
> edit /etc/xdg/xfce4/mount.rc and remove UTF-8 there. But please be aware
> of the fact that you will run into trouble if you ever happen to have
> any files not ISO encoded. Not sure if this is likely for somebody in
> the US, but for the large majority of our users UTF-8 is the better
> choice.
> 
> > BTJ
> 

I have always used ISO-8859-1 and I see no reasons to change...
Just the way I have always installed Linux and never had any problems because of it until now... :)

BTJ