On 06/13/2007 03:27 PM, Oleg Roitburd wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 11:23 schrieb Marius Heidenstecker: >> I do use a FAT32 external USB-HDD on which I store VDR-recordings with the >> VFAT-option enabled. That way I can take VDR-recordings on that HDD to >> friends' Windows boxes and watch it there with VLC for example. So I'd like >> to keep it. Or is there a way to avoid that problem by, for example, taking >> different mount options on FAT32-file system? > > take a look at manpage of mount or burn DVD for your friends with > burn-plugin. > Windows recognize UTF-8 at DVD very well
I guess the problem is not whether Windows can handle UTF-8. The problem are the characters like ':' etc. that can't be used in a Windows file name. The question is: what happens if a FAT32 partition is mounted on a Linux system (with proper UTF-8 settings) and a program creates a file named "a:b" on that partition? Will it fail? Will Linux see it but Windows won't? Or does it just work magically? In the latter case, I can't really see how this should be possible, because Windows just *can't* handle a file name like "a:b", because "a:" would be (mis-)interpreted as a drive letter. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
