title: How do I specify a label/path with special characters as 'ñ' in /etc/fstab?
body: <p>I know that if a path has spaces one can encode it with <strong>\040</strong>:</p>
  <p>Example for path:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>&quot;//server/folder with spaces&quot;</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>fstab entry:</p>
  <pre><code>//server/folder\040with\040spaces /mnt/share/folder_local cifs nofail,credentials=/root/.credfile 0 0
  </code></pre>
  <p>But how to fill fstab if you have a path with non-English chars as <strong>'ñ'</strong>?</p>
  <p>Path example:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>&quot;//server/folderWith-ñ-char&quot;</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I've tried:</p>
  <p>fstab entry:</p>
  <pre><code>//server/folderWith-\F1-char /mnt/share/folder_local cifs nofail,credentials=/root/.credfile 0 0
  </code></pre>
  <p>based on:
  <a href="https://www.degraeve.com/reference/urlencoding.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.degraeve.com/reference/urlencoding.php</a></p>
  <p>but I get the error:</p>
  <pre><code> mount -a
  mount error(2): No such file or directory
  </code></pre>