Re: Konqueror won't print apostrophe

[John Batistic <john@batistic.net.nz>]

Your summary is correct.
All I do is plug in the ipod and wait. 
Konqueror starts. It generates the sound of breaking glass and the posted 
error message.
As far as I know, Konqueror and kmail are the only apps running. 
Certainly not Amarok.

John...

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 6:11:53 pm Christoph Burgmer wrote:
> Am Thursday, 11. September 2008 schrieb John Batistic:
> > :~$ ls -l /media/John\ Batistic’s\ iPod/
>
> It might be interesting what encoding goes wrong:
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug  8 2008, 09:22:44)
> [GCC 4.3.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> >>> "John Batistic’s iPod".decode('latin1')
>
> u'John Batistic\xe2\x80\x99s iPod'
>
> >>> print u"\xe2"
>
> â
>
> So some process takes the whatsoever encoded string and interprets it as
> Latin-1 which then gives you three single characters: â and the "two
> blocks".
>
> Can you clarify when and where this message box pops up? Might it be
> connected to the dialogue that asks you about what to do with the newly
> found device? Do you have Amarok running in the background which has its
> own notification process? Amarok is known to have encoding problems with
> attached devices.
>
> Christoph