Bug 234659

Summary:	files containing invalid character "�" (questionmark in box) cannot be read
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Philipp <philipp_foerster>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	frank78ac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Philipp 2010-04-18 00:02:56 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I don't know if i'm reporting this bug for the right program, but i'll give it a shot:

If a filename includes an invalid character � dolphin/konqueror/krusader/krename can't rename, move, delete or open the file. renaming the file with the command-line works, and after that it can be opened in dolphin etc. so the files are not erroneous.
file system is ext3. encoding is unicode.

the error message says:"The file or folder /folder/file�.extension does not exist."

I think i got the invalid characters when i was moving files from my NTFS drive to my ext3 drive. maybe i didn't mount the NTFS drive with the right encoding :(

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2010-04-18 16:04:15 UTC

Thanks for the bug report! This looks like a known encoding problem indeed. Unfortunately, it seems that it's not easy to fix (see the comments in the other bug report).

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