[kde] [Bug 508749] Massive issues with filenames not in UTF-8

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508749

--- Comment #3 from office at hantsch.co.at ---
(In reply to Hadi Chokr from comment #2)
> (In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1)
> > What you are doing is not supported, sorry
> 
> Could we support it? Or is there some technical limitation?

>From my point of view it should be possible with limited amount of effort.  But
I am no developer, this massively exceeds my skills.

When writing programs in FreePascal (this is what I actually do), I run
filenames through a little function that does a translation. Nothing else
should be necessary (so I _guess_) to do in the file browser. Translate
filenamed into UTF-8 (IIRC there are existing libraries for that) when reading
a directory, and translate back to the locale encoding before writing/creating
a file/directory.

So I think/guess/assume there is for sure a point where a similar functionality
can be hooked in in KDE, too.

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