Created attachment 186448 [details] the notification SUMMARY Unicode device names are not correctly shown in device hot-plug notifications. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Plug in a USB device with non-ASCII Manufacturer/Product strings OBSERVED RESULT The Manufacturer/Product strings (UTF-8 in sysfs) are decoded with some 8-bit Latin encoding, see attached photo. EXPECTED RESULT Unicode device names are correctly shown. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION lsusb for the device: $ lsusb -vd 17ef:7f3d Bus 002 Device 007: ID 17ef:7f3d Lenovo 拯救者平板 Y700 Negotiated speed: SuperSpeed+ (10Gbps) Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 3.20 bDeviceClass 0 [unknown] bDeviceSubClass 0 [unknown] bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 9 idVendor 0x17ef Lenovo idProduct 0x7f3d 拯救者平板 Y700 bcdDevice 6.06 iManufacturer 1 LENOVO iProduct 2 拯救者平板 Y700 ...
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My mistake, it is actually 6.5.1.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5987
Git commit 3770bc5d48e08033462be4cd0365fb8329ea8b00 by Méven Car, on behalf of Nicolas Fella. Committed on 27/11/2025 at 11:05. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. [devicenotifications] Decode udev strings as UTF-8 They may contain unicode M +3 -3 devicenotifications/devicenotifications.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/3770bc5d48e08033462be4cd0365fb8329ea8b00
Git commit ffbbbc9405341489a36958008372acb004878638 by Nicolas Fella. Committed on 27/11/2025 at 16:55. Pushed by nicolasfella into branch 'Plasma/6.5'. [devicenotifications] Decode udev strings as UTF-8 They may contain unicode (cherry picked from commit 3770bc5d48e08033462be4cd0365fb8329ea8b00) M +3 -3 devicenotifications/devicenotifications.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/ffbbbc9405341489a36958008372acb004878638