Bug 167547

Summary:	Bad display of utf-8 characters
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	fish	Assignee:	Jörg Walter <trouble>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	projects.gg.aaron, shafff
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Screenshot illustrating problem Screenshot showing Konqueror SSHing into localhost

Description Dotan Cohen 2008-07-27 21:50:40 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.98)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Konqueror in KDE 4.1rc1 does not display Hebrew UTF-8 characters over SSH properly.

Local machine: Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.1rc1 and UTF-8 locale.
Remote machine: Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.5.9 and UTF-8 locale on the same LAN (Level 1 router between the machines).

Konqueror displays UTF-8 filenames on the remote machine as gibberish. It displays local UTF-8 filenames just fine.

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2008-07-27 21:50:58 UTC

Created attachment 26442 [details]
Screenshot illustrating problem

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2008-07-27 21:52:18 UTC

Although the problem is similar to Bug 165400, that bug shows question marks instead of gibberish for the filenames. So I do not believe that the two bugs are related.

Comment 3 Maksim Orlovich 2008-07-27 22:05:32 UTC

You may need to install the plugin that lets you change the remote encoding, though I don't know if kio-fish handles that..

Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2008-11-10 19:03:53 UTC

I can confirm that this bug is still present in KDE 4.1.1 even when SSHing into localhost.

Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2008-11-10 19:32:38 UTC

Created attachment 28474 [details]
Screenshot showing Konqueror SSHing into localhost

Konqueror seems to assume ISO-8859-1 for all remote connections. As every Linux distro that I have tested in the past three years defaults to UTF-8 for every locale, Konqueror should either:
1) Assume UTF-8
2) Assume that whatever is used locally (check system locale) is used remotely.
3) Query the remote server for locale (simply run "locale" upon connecting via SSH). This is probably not possible for FTP connections.

Comment 6 Nick Shaforostoff 2008-11-10 19:34:38 UTC

http://youonlylivetwice.info/konq-fish.png

this is konqueror trunk (i didn't make any changes to the code). i use utf8 locale

Comment 7 Dotan Cohen 2008-11-10 22:21:56 UTC

@Nick: could you try the same thing, but instead of using the @localhost address use your IP address (you can find this in ifconfig). Thanks.

Comment 8 Dotan Cohen 2008-11-28 21:17:07 UTC

Thanks, it works as expected now. Great job!