https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457151
Bug ID: 457151
Summary: Filenames that have improper (non-UTF-8) characters
are anathema to dolphin
Product: dolphin
Version: 22.04.1
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: dolphin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: bugh...@gluino.name
CC: kfm-de...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 150916
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=150916&action=edit
The improperly named file in Dolphin
I used to have a few files apparently from an old archive with characters that
were not properly encoded as UTF-8, instead the bytestring for the filename was
ISO-8859-1. So for example "ü" would be encoded as 0xFC or octal 374.
I found out that it was impossible to rename to from inside Dolphin.
For example, if you create a file "FührerCat.txt" with the ü encoded as 0xFC
from the shell:
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$ mkdir TEST && cd TEST
$ touch $'F\xFChrerCat.txt'
$ ls
'F'$'\374''hrerCat.txt'
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Then the file is shown in dolphin with a placeholder (see attachment) but you
cannot rename it. Dolphin says "the file does not exist" and refuses to rename
it.
I have renamed them from the command line but somehow a few ended up in the
Trash, too (which can be done by moving their containing folder into the
trash).
In .local/share/Trash:
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$ cd .local/share/Trash/
$ tree
.
├── directorysizes
├── files
│ └── TEST
│ └── F\374hrerCat.txt
└── info
└── TEST.trashinfo
3 directories, 3 files
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If one now attempts to empty the trash from Dolphin, Dolphin complains "could
not remove folder" so one has to do it from the command line
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