I've recently received several (couple hundred) files from a windows user. Many of the files contain accented characters which do not display correctly on my system (I'm using Antix M8, but I suspect this may be a more general question). The files display correctly on the same system under windows, but not under linux. The files are on a storage partition, formatted vfat. I normally mount this partition through fstab.

Any thoughts on a way around this problem?

Note: I've also posted at mepislovers.org in the"Regulars" section. Any solution, if it happens to work, will be posted in both forums.

I've added"utf8" to the options line in my fstab file. That seems to allow the filenames to be displayed properly. A mepislovers.org member suggested changing the locale, but I'm unfamiliar with what will happen to the rest of the system, so I'm trying this first.

Instead of changing the locale you could just add the one you need.
as root of course.