Created attachment 78460
Working fix

This attacment is a patch against kde4libs-4.10.1.
It works around the problem like this: in 
KLocalePrivate::initFileNameEncoding() KDE sets the QFile's encoding/decoding 
function, to to/fromUTF8() in QString, which in turn calls QUtf8's converter 
function (QUtf8 is not exported to developers, so I had to use an inefficient 
method, I think it would be better if we could use the state parameter for 
error detection). I replaced this with the said functions' copy/pasted version 
and changed it, so when it encounters an invalid UTF8 string, it will encode it 
byte by byte, mapping the lower 128 their normal unicode place and the upper 
128 to U+18000-U+1807F, and of course the decoder reverses it.
To make this actually work you have to define the KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES enviroment 
variable (otherwise we would need to patch at QT level). 
So, do the following:
.kde/env/KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES.sh
with this content:
export KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES=yesplease

logout, login, try dolphin on faulty files. (instead of the usual boxed
"?" you'll see just boxes)

HTH

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