Idea #4057: Better support for international characters in filesystems

Ubuntu 7.10 has a terrible support for international characters in filesystem. Or - at least - most media are not automatically mounted with the correct charset.

This issue plain prevents Ubuntu from reading some CD-Roms correctly.


Example 1:
Standard Ubuntu installation.
Insert a CD-Rom (burnt under Windows) with directories containing accented characters: Nautilus cannot copy these directories.

Example 2:
FTP site with accented characters in directories (iso-8859-1): There is NO SINGLE FTP CLIENT capable of downloading the files (not Nautilus, not gFTP, not Gnome Commander, nothing... well, except Krusader).



Ubuntu should:
- Try to do its best choosing the right charset when mounting (eg.Joliet charset/encoding is KNOWN.), or at least try to guess it.
- Provide means to easily remount with another charset (much like the "Character encoding" menu found in most browsers).