Created attachment 126807 [details] ( copy of the .torrent file from https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1587139 ) SUMMARY This particular .torrent file I downloaded from https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1587139 . I am attaching its copy created by KTorrent in ~/.local/share/ktorrent/tor1/torrent . When I give it to KTorrent to download, it creates all files and folders with every cyrillic char replaced into UTF8 EF BF BD sequence ( https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%EF%BF%BD ). When I view torrent file with 'less', I see inside UTF8 Cyrillic names for every file, along with (I suppose) same name encoded in Windows cp1251. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Get .torrent file from the URL above, or use attached copy 2. Ask KTorrent to download files&folders according to this .torrent 3. Look within the resulting files&folders tree OBSERVED RESULT When I do 'find', 'ls' or 'pwd' in the downloaded file&folder tree, I see question marks inside diamond or hexagonal shapes. When I pipe that through 'xxd', I see these UTF8 triples, EF BF BD, repeated for every such char EXPECTED RESULT Files and folders should be properly named according to their UTF8 names specified inside .torrent file. cp1251-encoded names should be either ignored, or converted into UTF8, or (the least of evils) created in the filesystem as cp1251 byte sequences which could then be renamed into their UTF8 equivalents with some additional script SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 20.04 (development version) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0 Qt Version: 5.12.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION