[Okular-devel] [Bug 236967] New: PDF links broken when filepath or filename contains spaces or accented chars

[Valentin Villenave]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236967

           Summary: PDF links broken when filepath or filename contains
                    spaces or accented chars
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: valentin at villenave.net


Version:           0.10.02 (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Greetings,

I looked for a duplicate but couldn't find any; please close if this has
already been reported!

Long story short: external links to a local file are broken in Okular if the
filepath contains accented characters.

Long story long:
GNU LilyPond is a music notation software that generates PDF music scores from
a text file written in a specific syntax. The generated PDFs contain specific
links, so that by clicking on any object (note, etc.) in Okular, a text editor
is opened with the cursor at the exact corresponding point of the source code.
For example, the Frescobaldi editor regroups a Katepart and an Okular component
in the same window; clicking on any note of the PDF places the cursor to the
appropriate location in the source code (see http://frescobaldi.org/screenshots
).

This is handled with textedit:// links to the (local) source file. These links
are UTF-8 encoded (and spaces are encoded as %20), however Okular is unable to
decode accented chars and spaces.

For instance, have a look at the attached PDF on Frescobaldi's bug tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilykde/issues/detail?id=33

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