Norwegian characters.

[Monster Inc.]

Hello.

New to the forum, without any knowledge of programming. My experience stops at building PCs, making networks, and other physical computer problems.

So, to the problem.

I bought this router, 500gP, in 2006, and was surprised it didn't handle NTFS, despite the seller told me it should work (idiot). So I got Paragon's Partition Manager and Mount Everything to make an Ext2 drive of my Seagate 300 GB external hard drive. Then I copied everything I wanted to this disk via Firewire, and mounted it to the 500gP.

All files and folders containing Norwegian letters (there are 3 of them, æ,ø,å) were now lost, and unrepairable. Only workaraound is to format the drive to FAT32, which I find works very slow.

Is there any way of learning the router international (in my case, Norwegian) letters? I have read about alternate firmwares, but will they cure the problem? I don't dare to test it with Asus' latest firmware incase it ruins my files again - which I can't afford.

Morten.

[MMCM]

Do you talk about samba shares on the router?

Samba 2.x cannot use the utf-8 character set, which may be needed for norwegian letters.
Using iso-8859-1 with german umlaut characters does work fine with openwrt and samba 2.2.12
Maybe you could switch to iso-8859-10?
Samba 3.x with utf-8 support may require to many resources to run fine on the wl-500gp.

[Monster Inc.]

Do you talk about samba shares on the router?

If a samba share refers to the share nodes set up through the router, then yes. I really don't know any linux, and hence never heard of any samba - other than the dance ofcourse... :D



Samba 2.x cannot use the utf-8 character set, which may be needed for norwegian letters. Using iso-8859-1 with german umlaut characters does work fine with openwrt and samba 2.2.12. Maybe you could switch to iso-8859-10?
Samba 3.x with utf-8 support may require to many resources to run fine on the wl-500gp.

I've done some searching, and I think the ISO-8859-1 should work, as this one seems very similiar to the old DOS codepage 850/865, with æÆ, øØ, åÅ as the Norwegian characters.

But I really don't know what to do at all. I have done straight firmware upgrades through the router, but are really just wandering in the dark when you say "switch to ISO-8859-1" and terms like "Samba 2/3.x" come up. I'd be very happy for instructions as this is driving me nuts. It works very well on the computer, as I load the codepage through the Paragon mounting.

Regards, Morten.

[bodvar]

Do you talk about samba shares on the router?

Samba 2.x cannot use the utf-8 character set, which may be needed for norwegian letters.
Using iso-8859-1 with german umlaut characters does work fine with openwrt and samba 2.2.12
Maybe you could switch to iso-8859-10?
Samba 3.x with utf-8 support may require to many resources to run fine on the wl-500gp.

Hi! Would just like to ask what is the code line for using iso-8859-10 in smb.conf ?

[eemdz]

In the [global] section of your smb.conf, you can set the character set using the following two lines:

unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = UTF-8

So you could try:

unix charset = iso-8859-10
display charset = iso-8859-10

However, from memory, I think only Samba 3 supports those 2 line options and if that's the case, you might as well use UTF-8 which supports pretty much everything.

Samba 3 isn't very easy to install and configure, but it is worthwhile to do it. Hopefully, Samba 2 supports those 2 options.