Bug 218148

Summary:	dolphin cannot operate on some files, although can be handled with konsole
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	H.H. <cyberbeat>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	frank78ac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description H.H. 2009-12-10 19:16:36 UTC

Version:           1.3 (using 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4) "release 2", KDE:43 / openSUSE_11.2)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop

I have mounted a usb vfat drive with german umlaut problems, I want to rename/copy/move some of these files

for example a file named (a iso encoded filename with utf8)

k�se.txt

it is correctly displayed in dolphin, but I can make no actions like rename, copy, move:

dolphin displays a dialog "file/folder not found" after renaming/dragging

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2009-12-11 00:38:55 UTC

Thanks for the bug report! Maybe this is related to/a duplicate of bug 165044.

Comment 2 H.H. 2009-12-11 01:05:50 UTC

maybe it is related. but this must not be a wontfix!!

in the meanwhile after much fiddling I fixed my vfat encoding problems with a tool named "convmv" like "convmv -r -f utf-8 -t cp1252 --fixdouble MYDIR", when mounted the device with utf-8-encoding. 

but a "normal" user should be able do normal operations on files with broken filenames in dolphin, too.

Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2009-12-11 10:40:20 UTC

> maybe it is related. but this must not be a wontfix!!
[...]
> but a "normal" user should be able do normal operations on files with broken
> filenames in dolphin, too.

I agree that this situation is not nice, but note that the cause of the problem is inside Qt, not in Dolphin. It seems that it would require a lot of work to fix this properly, and nobody was willing to come up with a patch so far :-(

Note that the wish bug 204768 is about another approach to solve the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 165044 ***

Comment 4 H.H. 2009-12-11 11:29:25 UTC

has there been a bug reported to Qt already? is this a new bug in qt4?

Comment 5 Frank Reininghaus 2009-12-11 11:42:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> has there been a bug reported to Qt already? is this a new bug in qt4?

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-5832