Bug#393214: Can't open a file if it has an accented character like Hí.doc.

[annonygmouse <annonygmouse@yahoo.co.uk>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> annonygmouse wrote:
>
> > Title says it all.
> > When oppening a file with an accent openoffice starts loading
> > but it stops showing a message: "/home/jo/Hí.doc does not exist".
>
>
> How is the file encoded?

The file is created using: touch Hí.doc, so it's an empty file.
I've detected the problem opening a file from WWW, but I can't remember 
the URL.


> > Changing my LANG to
> > LANG=C oowriter /home/jo/Hí.doc
> > works! But shows the filename mangled, something like HA~-.doc

When running from console oowriter says:
I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "ca_ES.UTF-8"
I thought it was just a warning, but coud this be blamed?

> Hmm.
>
> Which file picker? Native or GNOME one?

I'm using KDE, I wasn't using the file picker from openoffice, I
was running: oowriter /home/jo/Hí.doc from command line.
Anyway, I've tried to open the file from _inside_ openoffice with
same result (Native file picker).

> > Note: I'm running openoffice in a 32 chroot environment because I'm 
> > using Debian SID 64bits.

Update: the 32bits chroot environment can't be blamed, I've got mplayer 
there also and I can view videos like: entrénamiento.wmv...

> You are not up-to-date...

I did a: aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade this morning...
Wy do you say I'm not up-to-date?
ortatildebian64:/# dpkg -l|grep openoffice.org
ii  openoffice.org                  2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org Office suite version 2.0
ii  openoffice.org-base             2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite - database
ii  openoffice.org-calc             2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite - spreadsheet
ii  openoffice.org-common           2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite architecture independent files
ii  openoffice.org-core             2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite architecture dependent files
ii  openoffice.org-draw             2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite - drawing
ii  openoffice.org-help-es          2.0.4~rc3-1 
Spanish help for OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-impress          2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite - presentation
ii  openoffice.org-java-common      2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite Java support arch. independent
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-ca          2.0.4~rc3-1 
Catalan language package for OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-es          2.0.4~rc3-1 
Spanish language package for OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-math             2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite - equation editor
ii  openoffice.org-writer           2.0.4~rc3-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite - word processor

AFAIK openoffice 2.0.4 has not yet arrived to Debian, has it?


> (Besides the fact that a Debian SID doesn't even exist)

I kind of disagree
http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/

Maybe it doesn't _exist_ in a sense that it _allways_ changes, but
_exists_ nontheless :).

Kind regards
Sebastià
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