Why cannot read arabic characters on vfat?!!!!

[AHAROON111]

I have problem with files named in arabic letters on vfat partitions. it appears as ??. but in ntfs partitions it works fine and appear right. how i solve this. here is what i wrote in fstab

/dev/sdb5 /media/DATA vfat utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1

[flarson]

Re: Why cannot read arabic characters on vfat?!!!!

man mount shows this line
codepage=value
Sets the codepage for converting to shortname characters on FAT and VFAT filesystems. By
default, codepage 437 is used.
That might help you.

[AHAROON111]

Re: Why cannot read arabic characters on vfat?!!!!

I didnt understand what u want to say

the line
/dev/sdb5 /media/DATA vfat utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1
what i have to change in it to be the default values fo fat partitions??

which value affect in language of files and folders? and what it should to be to read arabic files??

[flarson]

Re: Why cannot read arabic characters on vfat?!!!!

I am afraid I do not know which codepage to use, bit I think you need a codepage=xxx in your options string
/dev/sdb5 /media/DATA vfat utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser,codepag e=xxx 0 1

Since 437 is the default you know that is not the right one. You might Google
arabic codepage and see what comes up. Or maybe arabic codepage linux mount.