Bug#429145: eog: Breaks with paths that include non-utf8 non-ascii characters

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sat Jun 16 15:43:16 UTC 2007


Le samedi 16 juin 2007 à 18:24 +0300, Sami Liedes a écrit :
> > Please fix your mail server so that it doesn't use RBL+ (which is
> > knowingly broken) if you want to receive replies to your bug reports.
> 
> Working on it, thanks for notifying. Now trying routing through gmail.

Thanks.

> > This is expected. You should use UTF8 filenames on your filesystem
> > regardless of your locale.
> 
> Uhh, that seems a pretty bold assertion to me. Who says so? Is it the
> Debian position that it is not a bug that software doesn't work with
> non-UTF-8 locales/filenames? Has this been discussed on e.g.
> debian-devel?

This is GNOME's position, and caused a lot of heated debate when it was
decided upon. The rationale is that you can't expect everyone on a
single system to share the same locale. Even worse, you can't expect to
share files by any protocol if the filename encoding isn't shared as
well.

> Ok, trying that, thanks :) Still it seems to me that working with
> "broken filenames" should be the default. Switching to UTF-8 is a good
> goal, I agree with that, but at this point I would consider brokenness
> with other locales most definitely a bug.

Other locales work, it's just the filenames that need to be UTF8.

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