File Names & Charsets

[Arkas]

I have been trying for some time now to make my Red Hat Linux distro view greek charactes in file names instead of those little ??????? signs. I have 2 NTFS partitions which i mounted as /mnt/Windows and /mnt/Backup and both of them contain files that are named in greek. I was browsing the internet and i found a tutorial to make it possible to view greek named files in partitions.
The problem is that the tutorial was about SuSE 8.2 Pro and vfat filesystems.
This is what i found (fstab):
/dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
The only thing that someone has to do to view greek named files according to the tutorial is to change the iocharset to iso8859-7.
Well i tried in with my fstab configuration which is like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
and changed it like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows ntfs ro,umask=0222,iocharset=iso8859-7 0 0
I tried to put the line code=437 but it gave me an error during boot so i erased it.
I also installed some win ttf fonts that contain greek characters and changed all the system fonts to those and all the setting to iso8859-7 but again when i view the files i see little squares instead of the name.
Am i doing something wrong or this doesn't work in Red Hat 9 / KDE 3.1 or at all?
Any ansewer will be appreciated.

[Dolda2000]

It could simply be that your NTFS drives are encoded with utf-8. Try that instead of iso8859-7.

[Arkas]

Well i tried this:
iocharset=utf-8
and this iocharset=UTF-8
and i get an error for both of them during boot. Instead of the green OK i get FAILED when reading the fstab file and trying to mount the 2 ntfs partitions.
Something about wrong fs type...

[Dolda2000]

Sorry, my mistake. That should be utf8, not utf-8.

[Arkas]

Thanks Dolda2000 that worked great!