| Summary: | Filenames that have improper (non-UTF-8) characters are anathema to dolphin | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | David Tonhofer <bughunt> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kfm-devel, morsmortium |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 22.04.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | The improperly named file in Dolphin | ||
Can confirm, moving, trashing and deleting (shift delete) don't work either. Another symptom was having a file named ''$'\200' and another named ''$'\362', and trying to rename one began renaming the other. |
Created attachment 150916 [details] The improperly named file in Dolphin I used to have a few files apparently from an old archive with characters that were not properly encoded as UTF-8, instead the bytestring for the filename was ISO-8859-1. So for example "ü" would be encoded as 0xFC or octal 374. I found out that it was impossible to rename to from inside Dolphin. For example, if you create a file "FührerCat.txt" with the ü encoded as 0xFC from the shell: ----- $ mkdir TEST && cd TEST $ touch $'F\xFChrerCat.txt' $ ls 'F'$'\374''hrerCat.txt' ----- Then the file is shown in dolphin with a placeholder (see attachment) but you cannot rename it. Dolphin says "the file does not exist" and refuses to rename it. I have renamed them from the command line but somehow a few ended up in the Trash, too (which can be done by moving their containing folder into the trash). In .local/share/Trash: ----- $ cd .local/share/Trash/ $ tree . ├── directorysizes ├── files │ └── TEST │ └── F\374hrerCat.txt └── info └── TEST.trashinfo 3 directories, 3 files ----- If one now attempts to empty the trash from Dolphin, Dolphin complains "could not remove folder" so one has to do it from the command line