Bug#549322: Non friendly kde for internationnal user
[Bastien ROUCARIES - Mittwoch 08 September 2010 14:08:22]
Hi,
> kde does not seems to be friendly with internationnal user.
>
> See bugs https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165044 and
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549322
The former has an explanation, that a fix would cause too much trouble
and that KDE had transition code for 5 years. The files you cannot
rename anymore have brocen file name encodings. There is also a link
to a more technical explanation:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=122025063320264&w=2
> description of upstream bug show clearly the problem:
> >Attached is a tar file with two folders with characters that aren't utf-8 encoded.
> >
> >If I open it with ark, it seems to guess the right encoding, and shows the special characters, ("Relatório" and "Código" -- the problem is in the 'ó').
> >
> >If I use dolpin tar:/... to navigate inside the file without extracting it, the special character just isn't shown (folders show up as Relatrio and Cdigo), but I can still navigate and see the >files inside the folders.
> >
> >Finally, if I extract the file (tar xvf <file>), and try to navigate inside the folders with the wacky names, I get an error saying The file or folder (...) does not exist, and It refuses to >delete them too.
>
> Unfortunatly upstream refuse to fix this bug, that is really anoying
> for internationnal user.
If I understand correctly, only for those with broken file names.
Sure, it's annoying. If the fix was easy, it would likely already be there.
The risk of breaking many other things seems not worth the risk though.
Regards
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