thunderbird and "umlaute":öäüßin filenames created with gnome

[Pav Lucistnik]

V čt, 29. 07. 2004 v 17:16, Franz Klammer píše:

> 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.

No idea about Thunderbird, but Gtk2 based applications including gThumb
use Utf-8 in interaction with file system, regardless on used locale
settings.

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              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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