Bug#865518: gvfs-mount: possibly should have a `filename-encoding' option

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Package: gvfs-bin
Version: 1.30.4-0ubuntu1
Severity: wishlist


Dear Maintainer,

Please consider adding a `filename-encoding' option to gvfs-mount.

So when mounting for example a remote "smb:" filesystem, associate an encoding with it.

And when reading or writing files from or to it, use this encoding.

And the "local" filesystem(s) (every filesystem in the system's mount tree, under '/') also should have an associated 
encoding.
And when copying files, the (abstract) characters of the filename should be preserved. It means that a decoding should 
occur at the source filesystem and an encoding at the target filesystem.
The G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable is something related but not quite a filesystem--encoding maptable.


(My attemts to issue reportbug failed. With "--tls": 'submit at bugs.debian.org': (554, b'5.7.1
<submit at bugs.debian.org>: Recipient address rejected: Access denied'). Without --tls: (530, b'5.7.0 Must issue a 
STARTTLS command first', 'Peter <e2qb2a44f at prolan-power.hu>').)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
   APT prefers zesty-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'zesty-updates'), (500, 'zesty-security'), (500, 'zesty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-24-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.iso88592, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.iso88592 (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gvfs-bin depends on:
ii  gvfs-common   1.30.4-0ubuntu1
ii  libc6         2.24-9ubuntu2.2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.52.0-1

gvfs-bin recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gvfs-bin suggests:
ii  gvfs  1.30.4-0ubuntu1

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