Bug 168219 - Copying files with special / non-ascii characters (e.g. ö, ë and ø) fails in 4.1
Summary: Copying files with special / non-ascii characters (e.g. ö, ë and ø) fails in 4.1
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159241
Alias: None
Product: kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2008-08-03 15:57 UTC by Diederik van der Boor
Modified: 2013-06-15 20:31 UTC (History)
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Description Diederik van der Boor 2008-08-03 15:57:08 UTC
Version:           onbekend (using 4.1.00 (KDE 4.1.0) "release 16.3", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_10.3)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.18-0.2-default

I'm copying all files from one hard disk to another, and the copy process fails on files with special characters / non-ASCII characters. This happens for example with artist names like "DJ Tiësto".
Comment 1 David Faure 2009-03-12 17:52:01 UTC
This doesn't sound like a KDE bug. Could it be that the filesystem doesn't support it, or isn't mounted with the right charset? Did you try from the command-line or with a non-kde filemanager to see if that worked? Although there's one additional restriction in KDE: all your filesystems must use the same encoding (charset).
Comment 2 Diederik van der Boor 2009-03-15 20:12:30 UTC
Nope, I copied the files from one ext3 disk to another. Both disks were mounted with default options.

Copying such file within the same partition seams to work in KDE 4.2.1 (I don't have the old disk anymore).

> Although there's one additional restriction in KDE: all your filesystems must use the same encoding (charset).
That seams like a bug to me :-|
Comment 3 David Faure 2009-05-21 03:32:37 UTC
My wife had the same bug today, with a USB stick containing wrongly encoded stuff on it (from a Mac or something). No way to delete them. Thiago, didn't you add a way to encode non-utf8 sequences into qstring for this? Or am I confusing things?
Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2009-05-21 09:36:25 UTC
No. The code was added to Qt 3.2 and removed in 4.3.

Wrongly-encoded file names are not supported.
Comment 5 Dawit Alemayehu 2013-06-15 20:31:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159241 ***