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

[Sami Liedes]

package eog
submitter 429145 sami.liedes at gmail.com
thanks

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:43:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> 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.

> 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?

> You can work around that with the G_BROKEN_FILENAMES environment
> variable, but this is not recommended. You should make your filenames
> use UTF8, and consider switching your locale to UTF8 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.

	Sami
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