[Bug 468343] Re: blkid does not read non-ASCII characters from NTFS labels

[Ken Sharp]

It's been 14 years, is this still an issue?

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  blkid does not read non-ASCII characters from NTFS labels

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: hal

  When plugging in an external harddrive with an NTFS filesystem with a
  label set to contain UTF-8 characters, the mounted path as well as the
  label displayed in nautilus are incorrect. The label reported by
  ntfs-3g are always correct. The labels are set with the command
  ntfslabel.

  Some different examples follows:

  NTFS label  #   HAL label discovered  # Label used in Nautilus / Filesystem path (/media/...)
  =========================
  dong          #   dong        #   dong
  東西           #   55            #   ??
  Å                #  %              #  4A12287F1228725D
  dong西       #   dong%     #  dong?
  dongÅ        #   dong%     #  dong
  dong西xi    #   dong%xi   #  dong?xi
  dongÅxi     #   dong%xi   #  dong

  
  Examining the above table shows that depending on what Unicode character the file system path and label shown in nautilus differ. The behaviour of hal is also a bit odd.  When a chinese character is used together with a ASCII character, hal with read it as '%', while nautilus and the path as '?'.  When the swedish character 'Å' is used together with ASCII characters, hal with do the same as with chinese characters, but nautilus and the path will simply truncate everything including and after the swedish character. 

  If only chinese characters are used, hal with read them as the number
  '5'. '東西' is translated into '55'. ‘東西南北’ translates to '5555'. When
  only swedish characters are used, hal will read them in as '%', while
  the path as well as the label presented in nautilus will be something
  looking like a large random identifier number.

  In Ubuntu 9.04, these issues did not exist. A NTFS partition with
  label 東西 would automatically mount into /media/東西/, and would be
  presented correctly in nautilus. The issue occurred immediately after
  upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10.

  Setting the label is done with the command ntfslabel. Reading hal
  values is done with the command hal-devices.

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