Bug 171424

Summary:	.kde/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml is not generated correctly
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Marcus Moeller <mm>
Component:	bookmarks	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	mikid, peter.penz19
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Marcus Moeller 2008-09-21 21:02:33 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Slackware Packages

If LANG is not set to an UTF8 character-set bookmarks.xml file is not generated correctly. In this case e.g. German Umlauts are rendered wrong.

Slackware has UTF-8 disabled by default for compatibility reasons.

Comment 1 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2008-11-04 10:23:11 UTC

I can confirm this in the Polish iso-8859-2 locale. Editing any kfileplaces bookmark results in national characters being replaced with question marks because $KDEHOME/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml is overwritten with incorrectly encoded characters.

Comment 2 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2008-11-24 17:54:58 UTC

Just wondering... exactly how many "me too" comments from users does it take for a bug to be no longer considered "unconfirmed"?

Comment 3 Peter Penz 2009-01-10 15:34:32 UTC

> Just wondering... exactly how many "me too" comments from users
> does it take for a bug to be no longer considered "unconfirmed"? 

Sorry, it's sometimes not easy to keep the overview about the high number of bugs ;-) Is confirmed now...

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2021-03-21 00:25:06 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 10 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.