UTF-8 and still cannot see files with special chars

Hello,

I have an Ubuntu server installation of serviio that is working like a charm, except that I cannot see any files that include special characters, which are quite a lot since I am Swedish and have a lot of special chars all over. This is a common problem mentioned in the FAQ (http://www.serviio.org/component/content/article/21#q9) and the solution is claimed to be "make sure your system locale / default character set is set to UTF-8":

But my system is telling me that I am using UTF-8:
***
~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
***

Any ideas what to do?

All the best,
Nick

Try to change it into sv_SE.UTF-8 instead

sudo apt-get install language-pack-sv

export LC_ALL=sv_SE.utf8

If the above doesn't work after a reboot you can try this aswell

Take a look at what locales are supported (Swedish utf8 most probably is, but to be sure)

cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

You will most probably find
sv_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8
sv_SE ISO-8859-1

Copy/write down their names and then

nano /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

Add the locales you have entered in that list and then rebuild your locales by doing

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Good luck!

[phn2]

Hi.

Done the above, but in danish, but after restart the server will not display the danish letters. It works until reboot?
Using turnkey linux as OS, think its ubuntu.
Any ideas to make the language stick?

[phn2]

root@fileserver /media/MUSIK# sudo apt-get install language-pack-da
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
language-pack-da is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
root@fileserver /media/MUSIK# export LC_ALL=da_DK.utf8

When writing that last line in terminal, the danish letters show up, after cd'ing back to the appropiate path?

[zip]

you might get more help in specialized Linux forum

[phn2]

Have gotten the utf in place, da_DK.utf stayes after reboot, but serviio will not pass on danish letters. I cant folders containing danish letters, even though they exist.

[phn2]

The files will not show up when using serviio mediabrowser either.

[zip]

is the utf-8 Locale set for the user running serviio?

[phn2]

I'm not that good in linux, but serviio is running on a headless ubuntu server. When using ssh to login to the server, the files with danish letters show up. When using mediabrowser from other pc, the tv or audioreciever the files dosnt show up. How do I check wich user is running Serviio?

[phn2]

the serviioprocess on the server is running under root.

[zip]

ok, login as root and list all locales with

  Code:

locale -a


More details on setting it system wide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale