[Bug 160345] Kickoff recently used files does not support German Umlauts (special characters)

[James Richard Tyrer]

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------- Additional Comments From tyrerj acm org  2008-04-05 00:25 -------
This does not appear to be limited to Plasma.

Despite having LANG=en_US.UTF-8, when I type in a fake file name (with Umlaute) for a PNG to test this using dead keys it is encoded as ISO 8859-1 (or -15).  Konqueror correctly displays the file name correctly however right click and select Open with Gwenview and Gwenview doesn't open the file (error message displayed) although right click and select Preview with Gwenview and it works fine.

I also note that if I 'ls' the directory with Konsole, it does not display the Umlaute (I get "?") and setting the Konsole encoding doesn't fix the problem.

So, I tried it with LANG=en_US (which would be ISO 8859-1) and it made no difference.

I don't have Multimedia set up but I did try the same thing with an OGG file.  KPlayer opens a file without Umlaute in the file name, but adding a fake file name with Umlaute and KPlayer just says "error".

This issue should be handled in KDELibs and Qt.  Since I find other problems, I would say that this should be a KDELibs bug.