Bug#626857: nautilus: Cannot access CDs mastered with non-Unicode filename encoding

Simon Richter sjr at debian.org
Wed May 18 21:42:07 UTC 2011


Hi,

Am 18.05.2011 23:39, schrieb Josselin Mouette:

>> I have a CD that has ISO-8859-1 encoded file names; nautilus displays files
>> that have "broken" names with a note that the name has invalid encoding, and
>> file operations fail.

> This is not just for CDs. Nautilus (and any application based on GIO or
> the older GnomeVFS) assumes filenames are encoded in UTF-8 for
> filesystems that don’t specify the encoding. Any other behavior would be
> broken.

The main issue I have with this is that file operations fail. That is, I
cannot even rename or move the file, so the only way to fix this is to
use the command line.

   Simon






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