--- a/src/index/fsindexer.cpp
+++ b/src/index/fsindexer.cpp
@@ -406,10 +406,11 @@
interner.setMissingStore(m_missing);
// File name transcoded to utf8 for indexing.
- string charset = m_config->getDefCharset(true);
// If this fails, the file name won't be indexed, no big deal
// Note that we used to do the full path here, but I ended up believing
// that it made more sense to use only the file name
+ // The charset is used is the one from the locale.
+ string charset = m_config->getDefCharset(true);
string utf8fn; int ercnt;
if (!transcode(path_getsimple(fn), utf8fn, charset, "UTF-8", &ercnt)) {
LOGERR(("processone: fn transcode failure from [%s] to UTF-8: %s\n",