Bug#518062: kdelibs: Programs cannot be called on paths containing non-ascii characters

[David Palacio <dpalacio@uninorte.edu.co>]

On Martes 03 Marzo 2009 16:48:33 Alex Dănilă wrote:
> 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.
>
> -- no debconf information
Hi,

This problems only appears with Qt 4.5.