Bug#217261: acknowledged by developer (Re: galeon: browsing unicode filenames doesn't appear.)

[Sebastien Bacher]

Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

>> >  the fileselector window didn't show the
>> > filenames with accented leters
>> 
>> According to upstreams, not a bug ... I'm closing this bug report.

> I do not agree on this. 

There is no clue on this. That problem has been discuted to death many
time upstream, it'll not change (see bugzilla and GTK+ README). There is
no technical way to have a clean support of several locales in the same
time so the choice is UTF-8.


> Upstream may think this, and it may well be fine
> for harddisks, but this was data on a CD coming from somewhere else, and
> i can hardly have all the other boxes in the world modified in order to
> be able to read those files.

So just set G_BROKEN_FILENAME variable on your box 


> Also, even if the below was correct, i think there still would be a bug
> in the fact that the file got totally ignored. At least it should have
> been shown, even with some strange letters or something.

Technical upstream choises (displaying something when you doesn't know
what displaying is bad), that will no change.


To summarize this bug is definitively a NOTABUG for upstream, and at
least a wontfix one ... so feel free to tag or close it.



Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher