i mount a windows share like this: mount -t smbfs -o iocharset=gb2312,codepage=936,username=administrator //192.168.10.27/cvs /mnt/windows and try to copy file from /mnt/windows to my local disk. but if came to file with chinese name it always told me "cp: can't creat normal file , invalid argument." by the way i can see the file name (in chinese), and here is my locale: LANG=zh_CN LC_CTYPE="zh_CN" LC_NUMERIC="zh_CN" LC_TIME="zh_CN" LC_COLLATE="zh_CN" LC_MONETARY="zh_CN" LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN" LC_PAPER="zh_CN" LC_NAME="zh_CN" LC_ADDRESS="zh_CN" LC_TELEPHONE="zh_CN" LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_CN" LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_CN" LC_ALL= i try all possible charset utf-8,gbk,cp936,or gb2312. i have focus on this tow days,if i still can't solve this i will crazy. thanks fro any help!