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

[Andrius da Costa Ribas]

Bug Report sent.

2009/9/18 Andrius da Costa Ribas <andriusmao at gmail.com>:
> 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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