[arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 11:17:10 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 14:59, John Z. <johnz at pleasantnightmare.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>     there's a document on Dropbox, that has unicode character in its
>     path (french character). Trying to open this document with libre
>     office (Plasma is running) fails with 'file not found', and the path
>     shown with error clearly presents the path with that unicode
>     character replaced by '??'
>
>     What I tried:
>     * copy the document in a path where there's no unicode - it opens
>     * copy the document using shell - it works
>     * copy the document using Dolphin (from Plasma) - it works
>     * check $LANG - its set to `en_CA.UTF8`
>

Does `locale -a` show that locale?





-- 
damjan


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