Bug 165400

Summary: UTF-8 incompatibility issue with KDE4 / Dolphin
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: faure, finex, mail4alexei, shafff, spbcitylights
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Dotan Cohen 2008-06-30 11:05:18 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)

I have two Kubuntu installations, one running KDE 3.5.9 with a UTF-8 locale, and the second running KDE 4.1 Beta 2 with a UTF-8 locale. On the 3.x machine I copied several files with Hebrew filenames to a VFAT USB pen drive using Konqueror. When connecting the USB pan drive to the KDE 4.1 Beta 2 installation, however, both Dolphin and Konqueror show question marks instead of Hebrew characters in the filenames.

Other computers that I tested the pen drive on (one KDE 3.5.9 machine with UTF-8 locale and one Windows XP Professional SP2 machine), with the same files, show the Hebrew filenames with no problem. Note that I can give files Hebrew filenames on the KDE 4.1 Beta 2 machine, the only problem is reading files with Hebrew filenames from USB pen drives. I have not had the opportunity to test from CD or from SSH.
Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2008-07-27 21:53:17 UTC 
Bug 167547 has a similar situation for filenames over SSH. However, instead of question marks, the user sees gibberish. Therefore I do not believe that the bugs are related.
Comment 2 Nick Shaforostoff 2008-09-07 16:02:16 UTC 
fixed for kde 4.1.2 and 4.2

(it seems that automatic bug closing still haven't been restored)
Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2008-10-12 02:51:22 UTC 
*** Bug 167823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Alexei 2008-10-12 20:27:10 UTC 
Well, the problem seemed to be fixed in 4.1.2, but CD's or DVD's still mounts with wrong encoding. I see only "?????" in filenames instead cyrillyc characters!
Comment 5 Nick Shaforostoff 2008-10-12 21:17:02 UTC 
wait for 4.1.3 ;)
Comment 6 Alexei 2008-10-12 22:00:56 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> wait for 4.1.3 ;)
> 

Do you think it will be fixed in that version?
Comment 7 Nick Shaforostoff 2008-10-12 22:21:07 UTC 
yes, i already commited changes
Comment 8 Dotan Cohen 2008-11-10 18:58:56 UTC 
Confirmed fixed in KDE 4.1.1. Thanks!
Comment 9 FiNeX 2008-12-20 12:35:32 UTC 
Someone can confirm it is working on KDE 4.2 beta2 (or trunk) ?
Comment 10 Dotan Cohen 2008-12-27 00:39:01 UTC 
I can confirm that the issue is fixed in Trunk. Thanks.