Bug 194361

Summary: WISH: wizard to automatically port files with corrupted file name encodings to correct encodings
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs Reporter: Roland Leißa <roland.leissa>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Roland Leißa 2009-05-28 02:05:25 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.85)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

As bug 165044 is marked as WONTFIX and this resolution is a real pain I have the following suggestion:

Every time KDE does something with a file there is some error checking, whether this file exists, right? Otherwise there won't be error messages at all.

Now if KDE detects a missing file it should also check whether this a file with a broken filename encoding. If this is the case a dialog/wizard should be opened:

"The file 'bl?bla' has a name with broken encoding. Should KDE try to convert it?
Suggested new file name:
'blabla'

OK    Cancel    Apply to all"
Comment 1 Roland Leißa 2009-09-08 12:56:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204768 ***