-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 JÃrg Sommer schrieb: > > But I can see other files with umlauts and can open them. And other > programs like firefox, openoffice, jed can't show them. hm, i still doubt there are fs problems here. other programs might be umlaut-aware, some others are not. try to cp to another name and try to open the file then: $ mkdir new $ cp ÃmlÃut.txt new/umlaut.txt (use wildcards for the umlauts: *uml*ut.txt) $ diff *uml*ut.txt new/umlaut.txt you could try and move the files to another filesystem, then try to open it with the same tools (on the same machine!) Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #161: monitor VLF leakage -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCCViMC/PVm5+NVoYRAlnWAJ4yYLo81mzH8CovXMGFyoePOANSAwCgju4U TpdHkG+Tpr8dUbs6NScqJ54= =4UZD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users