[Bug 269089] New: unicode filenames are shown incorrectly unless application is launched with dbus-launch

[Itamar Ravid]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269089

           Summary: unicode filenames are shown incorrectly unless
                    application is launched with dbus-launch
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.6
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: iravid at iravid.com


Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

I'm experiencing a very annoying problem regarding unicode characters in
filenames. It appears that non-latin characters are detected incorrectly in
every KDE(/QT?) application, unless said application is run with 'dbus-launch'.

This makes for annoying results - Amarok does not detect these files, Dolphin
displays incorrectly, etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Launch application such as Dolphin normally, navigate to folder with unicode
characters.

Actual Results:  
Characters are displayed incorrectly.

Expected Results:  
Characters should be displayed correctly.

This happens on every filesystem - I've tried ext4, and NTFS (through ntfs-3g).
Also, my ~/.zshrc contains:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

However, this seems to have no effect.

I've attached two screenshots - one shows Dolphin handling these characters
when launched with dbus-launch, and one shows it when launched normally.

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