Bug#518062: kdelibs: Programs cannot be called on paths containing non-ascii characters
Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:4.2.1-1
Severity: important
File: kdelibs
KDE 4 programs cannot be launched to open files from paths containing
diacritics, in this example "ă" and "ţ". Choosing the file from the
"Open" dialog of the program works just fine.
Command line example:
$ pwd
/home/alex/cărţi
$ okular cheatsheet.pdf
Okular dialog says: "Could not open
file:///home/alex/cărţi/cheatsheet.pdf"
$ okteta cheatsheet.pdf
Okteta dialog says: "File '/home/alex/cărţi/cheatsheet.pdf' is not
readable."
$ khexedit cheatsheet.pdf
KHexEdit opens the files correctly.
The exact same thing happens if I launch the program from Konqueror or
Dolphin.
I am almost sure this is a bug newly introduced in the transition from
4.2.0 to 4.2.1, because I have many paths with diacritics and I was only
hit by this today, after an update. The main problem is that I don't
know how to downgrade to 4.2.0 to confirm this (and to stay there until
this is fixed).
Could someone please confirm this bug?
I initially submitted a report on KDE bugzilla:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186038
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kdelibs-bin depends on:
ii kdelibs5 4:4.2.1-1 core libraries for all KDE
4 appli
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libqt4-dbus 4.5.0~rc1-2 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqt4-xml 4.5.0~rc1-2 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqtcore4 4.5.0~rc1-2 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4.5.0~rc1-2 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsoprano4 2.2.2+dfsg.1-1 libraries for the Soprano
RDF fram
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxml2-utils 2.7.3.dfsg-1 XML utilities
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-2 XSLT processing library -
runtime
kdelibs-bin recommends no packages.
kdelibs-bin suggests no packages.
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