https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504259
--- Comment #6 from samontab <samon...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > You said "with the console" it fails, but then later you said with termux it > succeeded. Can you clarify the difference between what you did for each case? OK, found the reason for this issue. TL:DR; KDE used to automatically change colons (:) in the name for Modifier Letter Colon (꞉), which is valid as part of the name in the file system, but now KDE doesn't do it anymore, resulting in the error. This is what I was explaining before: The file creation was done from two different devices. It fails from the computer, while it works directly on the phone. On my computer with KDE, I connect my phone, mount the filesystem. Then, from my computer with KDE, using the console or file explorer(dolphin), it doesn't write the file on the phone if the filename has ":" in it, as seen in the attached gif. Both attempts show an error. On my phone, if I start the termux app, I can write a file with ":" in the name. This is correct, but termux on the phone starts at a different filesystem. If I navigate to the actual filesystem where the files are being accessed (Downloads for example), then that filesystem in fact doesn't accept colons in the name, as Steve mentioned. If I try with termux on my phone to write the name with : in it, it errors in the same way as KDE. I went to check on an older phone where I definitely didn't see this issue at the time with an older KDE, and it seems that KDE in the past used to automatically change the colon character for a visually similar one, but valid in the name. I never noticed the difference. This is the character it was changed to ꞉ and here is a normal colon : One next to each other you can clearly see the difference ꞉: Reading more into it I found that it's called the Modifier Letter Colon(Unicode: U+A789). I wonder why KDE decided to remove this useful feature. I think it's much better for the user to have a slightly different filename than to not being able to create or copy a file. This is specially useful when copying multiple files with this character in the name. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
