On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Frederik Schwarzer <schwarz...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Bastien ROUCARIES - Mittwoch 08 September 2010 14:08:22] > > Hi, > >> kde does not seems to be friendly with internationnal user. >> >> See bugs https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165044 and >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549322 > > The former has an explanation, that a fix would cause too much trouble > and that KDE had transition code for 5 years. The files you cannot > rename anymore have brocen file name encodings. There is also a link > to a more technical explanation: > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=122025063320264&w=2 > > >> description of upstream bug show clearly the problem: >> >Attached is a tar file with two folders with characters that aren't utf-8 >> >encoded. >> > >> >If I open it with ark, it seems to guess the right encoding, and shows the >> >special characters, ("Relatório" and "Código" -- the problem is in the 'ó'). >> > >> >If I use dolpin tar:/... to navigate inside the file without extracting it, >> >the special character just isn't shown (folders show up as Relatrio and >> >Cdigo), but I can still navigate and see the >files inside the folders. >> > >> >Finally, if I extract the file (tar xvf <file>), and try to navigate inside >> >the folders with the wacky names, I get an error saying The file or folder >> >(...) does not exist, and It refuses to >delete them too. >> >> Unfortunatly upstream refuse to fix this bug, that is really anoying >> for internationnal user. > > If I understand correctly, only for those with broken file names. > > Sure, it's annoying. If the fix was easy, it would likely already be there. > The risk of breaking many other things seems not worth the risk though. > The problem is the actual state is a regression comparing to kde 3, and I can not fix my cdrom (by renaming)
command line work so it is not a question of broken or not. Every thing except / and nul are valid filename. Technical explanation is not satisfactory, (i do not want to show correct char, ??? will be good) Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
