thunderbird and "umlaute":öäüß in filenames created with gnome

[Franz Klammer]

last days i had problems with thunderbird and attachment and files
that uses "öäüß" in the filenames.

guess gnome uses UTF-8 filenames and thunderbird use the current
locale set in $LANG.

if i create a file with gnome (e.g. nautilus) and like öäüß.pdf
and set LANG to de_DE.ISO8859-15 it looks like this:

http://webonaut.com/temp/umlaute_locale_de_DE.ISO8859-15.png

with LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8 it looks like it should:

http://webonaut.com/temp/umlaute_locale_de_DE.UTF-8.png

i noticed this because i didn't see an image saved with thunderird
in gthumb.

franz.