| Summary: | Non-ascii folders may disappear, depending on LC_CTYPE | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kmail | Reporter: | Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes <gaute> |
| Component: | folder list | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | luigi.toscano |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | Screenshot | ||
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Description
Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
2003-02-11 22:51:39 UTC
Subject: Re: New: Non-ascii folders disappear in evilwm What do you mean by disappeared? Can you probably provide a screenshot? Anyway, I doubt very much that this is a bug in KMail. I experimented some more, and found that KMail behaved differently when started from two different xterms. Comparing environment variables revealed that LC_CTYPE is the deciding factor: ------- $ export LC_CTYPE=nn_NO.UTF-8 $ kmail The non-ascii folders have disappeared. ------- ------- $ export LC_CTYPE=nn_NO.ISO-8859-1 $ kmail The folders are now back. ------- So evilwm has nothing to do with this bug, it's LC_CTYPE that affects KMail. Created attachment 939 [details]
Screenshot
The screenshot shows the correct folder list to the left, and the buggy one on
the right. Note that the folders "Bokm
we save the folder in the user's locale. You can't simply change your locale and expect your file system data still be there. The days that all file systems are unicode aware are most likely decades ahead ;-(( We could save the folders in UTF-8, but that would surely break quite some of them. But my prefered solution would be you confirm you did a silly mistake and close the bug yourself ;) I believe it. The biggest problem with it is most likely that the config files has the correct unicode name (depending on the first time's locale of course) But changing locales this way is simply asking for problems: missing feature I realise that the problem may be regarded as out of KMail's scope, but I still think KMail should have handled it better. Totally hiding the folder is not acceptable, but showing a slightly garbled name would be better. I experience a similar problem in music players (JuK, Noatun, Xmms), with artist names (in files/directories) containing non-ASCII characters. However, no music player hides the file, they just show Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented. Thank you for your understanding. Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2. |