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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 27 12:57:24 +0000 
2007 -------
I agree with the fact the encoding is inconsistent with the locale setting, this
is exactly my point in fact. However, I think it is important to handle this
case transparently. The real life situation in which I encountered the case
(several times) is when I receive files created by co-workers (well, mainly my
boss) on their system in order to provide some content and send it back to them.

The file name may seem strange according to *my* system, but it is neither
forbidden by Unix file naming rules (as long as some special characters are
avoided) nor impossible to handle with other applications (mail, shell commands,
browsers ...).

I said in my first post OOo tries to be too smart here. The file selection
widget succeed in handling the name as it can (sometimes) put it in the
selectable list and it allows the user to click on it. However once this has
been done and once the name is provided to some other part of the code which
will open it, it seems some sort re-encoding or normalization layer is traversed
and a different name is provided to the "open" system call, which fails because
the re-encoded name does not correspond to any existing file.

So I see a file on a widget, click on it, and OOo says "no such file or
directory". This is a real problem, regardless of the fact the name is badly
chosen or inconsistent with local. It is a valid name for the operating system
and it should not be transformed.

I understand such transcoding layers are interesting for display purposes, for
example to show a human readable version of the name in the selection widget, I
don't agree with a transcoding being inserting between the selection and the
opening of the file.

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