Bug 269089

Summary:	unicode filenames are shown incorrectly unless application is launched with dbus-launch
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Itamar Ravid <iravid>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Dolphin shown when launched normally Dolphin shown when launched with dbus-launch

Description Itamar Ravid 2011-03-21 23:18:36 UTC

Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

I'm experiencing a very annoying problem regarding unicode characters in filenames. It appears that non-latin characters are detected incorrectly in every KDE(/QT?) application, unless said application is run with 'dbus-launch'.

This makes for annoying results - Amarok does not detect these files, Dolphin displays incorrectly, etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Launch application such as Dolphin normally, navigate to folder with unicode characters.

Actual Results:  
Characters are displayed incorrectly.

Expected Results:  
Characters should be displayed correctly.

This happens on every filesystem - I've tried ext4, and NTFS (through ntfs-3g). Also, my ~/.zshrc contains:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

However, this seems to have no effect.

I've attached two screenshots - one shows Dolphin handling these characters when launched with dbus-launch, and one shows it when launched normally.

Comment 1 Itamar Ravid 2011-03-21 23:19:04 UTC

Created attachment 58233 [details]
Dolphin shown when launched normally

Comment 2 Itamar Ravid 2011-03-21 23:19:51 UTC

Created attachment 58234 [details]
Dolphin shown when launched with dbus-launch

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2011-03-22 00:27:27 UTC

> my ~/.zshrc

This is only executed when a shell starts, but KDE needs to know the systems' locale for every process.

Comment 4 Itamar Ravid 2011-03-23 12:29:13 UTC

Hi Chris, the problem appears when launching applications normally thru the shell as well. I've verified through the use of /proc/pid/environ that said env vars are used by the process.

Comment 5 Itamar Ravid 2011-04-17 19:08:30 UTC

Turns out Chris was right - I had to define $LANG in /etc/profile.