USB Drive folders/files with foreign characters display as ' ????? '

[mk01]

@flyingcar

the UTF-8 conversion (or mount option) can be valid in case your ext. disk is formatted with filesystem comming from the dos/windows era (fat, ntfs).

also, if (you didn't specify) you are referring to viewing from inside XBCM, support is present (XBMC's internal format is UTF8), but if you are listing your disk via ssh remote session, current environment settings and also ssh client font encoding can influence what you see at the end.

going back to the filesystem mount options. /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf FS_MOUNTOPTIONS variable specifying special (per filesystem type) mount options. for instance if the disk is ntfs, you can add to the first line "utf8", so the whole option line would read:

Code:

-fstype=ntfs,gid=xbian,uid=xbian,umask=0,big_writes,allow_other,utf8