Add utf-8 support to synology dsm

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http://www.xn--brwolff-5wa.de/tech-notes/synology-diskstation-howto-set-locale.txt

I've been using a Synology Diskstation DS209j to backup data via rsync. However, the locale on my laptop (the source of the backups) is de_DE.utf8, and on the Diskstation no such locale (in fact, no utf-8 locale at all) is available by default. This becomes a problem as soon as you're dealing with file names containing "non-standard" characters such as German umlauts. Here's what I did to remedy the problem, largely based on a very useful howto at <http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/CrashPlan_Headless_Client>:

log in to the Diskstation as root
cd /volume1/@tmp
uname -a # in order to find out what system you're at, and which tool chain to download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/files/; mine was <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/files/DSM%203.2%20Tool%20Chains/Marvell%2088F628x%20Linux%202.6.32/gcc421_glibc25_88f6281-GPL.tgz/download>
wget $the_url_found_in the_previous_step
tar -xzvf  $the_file_thus_downloaded
cd $the_dir/$the_dir
cp libc/usr/bin/locale /usr/bin 
cp libc/usr/bin/localedef /usr/bin 
cp -r libc/usr/share/i18n /usr/share
mkdir /usr/lib/locale
localedef -f UTF-8 -i de_DE de_DE.UTF-8 # or en_US en_US.UTF-8 if you so wish 
locale -a # should now give you more than C and POSIX
vi /etc/profile
 # add:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
 export LANG LC_ALL
reboot
#done