Problems with KDE_stat on systems where the default locale is not utf-8

[Jaime]

By the way, this is covered by bug
#56071<http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56071>

2008/11/21 Daniel Winter <dw at danielwinter.de>

> Am Wednesday 19 November 2008 21:42:23 schrieb Christian Ehrlicher:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When QFile::encodeName() can't convert an unicode character into the
> > system locale (== all locales except utf-8), the non-convertable
> > character is replaced by a question mark. Now that the filename is
> > broken, KDE_stat() can't do anything usefull and fails.
> > For me looks like KDE_stat() and others are broken by design (when
> > system locale is not utf-8) and we need a unicode version of KDE_stat().
>
> Ok, you are talking about Windows, but is the problem I am seeing on Linux
> related to this:
>
> I have some files on a usb flash device (vfat) and well somehow they have a
> weird encoding. Bash/Dolphin and apps are showing "?" or similar for some
> chars.
>
> The problem now is: I can not use that files with KDE at all. I can not
> even
> rename them though Dolphin is showing the files and their size pretty well.
> I
> have to start konsole and rename them using "mv" which is pretty
> complicated
> if the file starts with a "?" char..
>
>
>
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