No matter what locale i try to use, it wont work!

I always get a message when mounting: "Couldn't set locale to <LOCALE> thus you may not see properly or at all some files."

I tried subsequent values without any luck:
"es_ES.utf8" and all sorts of combinations...
"es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8"
"es_ES ISO-8859-1" tried like that and probably like "es_ES.iso8859-1" etc etc
"es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15" same here

But I decided to report my problem when i recently tried en_US.utf8 and didnt work either!

I got these values from /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
but i'm not sure that's the correct place to look at.

I know this isn't an important matter, but i'd love to get it working.

Distro: Gentoo Linux (2006.1 profile)
Kernel: 2.6.18-r3 gentoo-patched
GCC: 4.1.1
NTFS-3G: 0.20061115-r1
FUSE: 2.6.1

I'm pretty sure im making a mistake myself, but in case im not, ill be glad to help test this issue.

Thanks!

This means that your locale doesn't exist and you must generate it. To do
so, a package like glibc-i18ndata (this may be different for each distros)
must be installed and run this command as root:

localedef -i es_ES -f UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8

This will generate the locale you want and you can set the
locale=es_ES.UTF-8 option which should work.

You can see what locales you have by the following command:

locale -a

Thank you!

I tweaked a little with localedef and such and went through a guide to get my whole system work with unicode, and now it's all working as expected, including ntfs-3g.

I'm sorry for bothering you with such an off-topic issue regarding ntfs-3g and thanks again.

I'm eagerly awaiting for improvements on chunks allocation and such(I read it tries to fill every chunk of free space atm thus slowering the process of writing large files), if i understood well.

It does its job like a charm anyways. Keep up the good work! :)

Hello there,
I have the same problem as you did, Im wondering which guid did you follow to make it work for you?

Thanks
Please email me at hadiriazi@gmail.com

This is the guide I went through: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_ ... code/utf-8

However, note that if you use a different distro than Gentoo, you might have to tweak different things. But gentoo wiki is a good source of information anyways.

If I were you, I'd check first your distro's homepage for a guide on moving to unicode, rather than trying the url I wrote.

Cheers!