I can only open files named in non-Latin characters (i.e. not English), such as Cyrillic, Czech, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc if locale (in /etc/locale.conf or Regional Settings) is set to US English (en_US.UTF-8). If any setting is changed (such as LC_TIME or LC_MEASUREMENT), or the locale is simply set to Default (C), the files will refuse to open (even though LANG=en_US.UTF-8) This is independent of the application (meaning the same app will open the same files when the locale is US, but not otherwise), and this wasn't the case in KDE4 (also same files w/ same apps) In the attachments, "snapshot 1.png" shows the file in Czech opening normally (note the filename in the titlebar, and the time in VLC). "snapshot 2.png" shows what happens when the locale is changed to cs_CZ.UTF-8 (Czech), how VLC fails to recognize the characters (filename is ???? 'in Arabic for example', and error on opening). Also note that VLC is purely an example here, and it's not just video files in VLC (any file in any app) Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 93188 [details] File opens as expected w/ en_US.UTF-8
Created attachment 93189 [details] Can't read files if locale is not en_US.UTF-8
Anything?
Sorry this got ignored. Technically this isn't a bug in plasmashell, (the program that draws the panel and background) as in your screenshots you're launching this from Dolphin. I'll move it to Dolphin for now, but that's probably not the right place either. Can you try: opening with kde-open5 fileName open with kde-open fileName and see if that makes a difference
Sorry this got ignored. Technically this isn't a bug in plasmashell, (the program that draws the panel and background) as in your screenshots you're launching this from Dolphin. Can you try: opening with kde-open5 fileName open with kde-open fileName and tell me the results of both
marking as needsinfo
I think this isn't a problem in Plasma 5.4 anymore