KDE on asian windows versions? Could not determine kde installation prefix

[Andrius da Costa Ribas]

I'm filling Qt Bug Report Form.

2009/9/18 Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de>:
> Bernhard Reiter schrieb:
>> Carlo, Christian, Casper,
>>
>> thanks for responding, that was helpful!
>>
>> Am Freitag, 18. September 2009 11:45:50 schrieb Carlo:
>>> there is a known error when using non latin character in the username,
>>> kde can't access the .kde folder, maybe the "Program Files" folder is
>>> written in chinese too?
>>
>> Am Freitag, 18. September 2009 13:11:24 schrieb Casper van Donderen:
>>> Known problem,
>>>
>>> KDE does not work on Windows versions which are non-ASCII. Bugs are open
>>> about Japanese and Russian, I assume Arabic also does not work.
>>
>> Yes I was assuming problems in this area,
>> but I failed to search the kde tracker before asking. :/
>> My next step is to look into those issues.
>> I take it we do not have people from those areas as part of our community?
>>
> One big reason why it doesn't work is because Qt's QTemporaryFile isn't
> unicode-safe on windows. See qtemporaryfile.cpp:352
>
>    char *filename = qstrdup(qfilename.toLocal8Bit());
>
> This doesn't work when the locale doesn't contain the used characters.
> And since we're storing all KTemporaryFile's in the user home dir this
> is a very big problem...
>
> Who wants to write a bug report to tt?
>
>
> Christian
>
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