Bug 251206

Summary: ark can not handle german special characters (like ö,ä and the like)
Product: [Applications] ark Reporter: Martin Tlustos <martin.tlustos>
Component: generalAssignee: Harald Hvaal <metellius>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: rakuco
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.15   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Martin Tlustos 2010-09-14 12:52:31 UTC 
Version:           2.15 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

ark will not show German special characters like ö,ä,ü and ß. Instead, it will show some replacement character. Unpacking works, but the replacement character remain and prevent the file from being opened. Instead, an error message is shown complaining that the specified file does not exist. Other archive managers can handle those files without a problem, and the extracted files can be opened.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open an archive which contains a file with a name with special characters.

Actual Results:  
File cannot be opened, neither from within ark nor after extracting.

Expected Results:  
File should be openable

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-25-generic
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2010-09-14 15:31:30 UTC 
What archive format are you using?
Comment 2 Martin Tlustos 2010-09-14 16:45:43 UTC 
It's when I get sent a .zip file via email. I could try and check with other formats, as well. As I said, the gnome utility works well.
Comment 3 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2010-09-19 02:51:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 240727 ***