Hello again,
I found this thread concerning the same problem on another forum
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/…ad.php?t=382914
however, there's still no solution. My external HD is formated Fat32, but I was not aware of a difference in Fat32 versions.
Anyway, windows is able to write these special characters to the HD.
My guess is that the encoding of the filename and folder name is not properly recognised by linux, and therefore it doesnt know what to write.
I found convmv to change the encoding of file names. What I didnt get is how I get to know the initial encoding of a given file name.
maybe this helps a bit
Gerard