Re: Mozilla will not display top level dir of ntfs partition (Mandrake10.1)

From: CV (or254498_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:15:40 +0100

Innocenti Maresin wrote:

>>This only happens with Mozilla and only on this particular
>>partition. Konqueror works as expected and Mozilla does
>>too on another vfat mounted partition.
>>
>>The funny thing is it _will_ display directories the
>>next level down ok, eg. writing file:///c/u/ will
>>display the C:\u directory as expected and from
>>there on you can navigate down the tree as usual.
>>
>>Any ideas ?
>
>
> May be there are an entry with some unusual name in NTFS root directory,
> which Linux translates to something confusing Mozilla.
> Linux's NTFS driver translate names from UCS2 to iocharset
> and there are troubles when name contains a character which not belongs to iocharset.
> With what options is your /c mounted?
> What entries contain /c ?
> ls -lQ /c
> What changes when you remount /c with nls=utf8 ?

This makes sense to me ! Worth looking into.
I'll check and get back on this.
CV

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