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Does Thunar support other locales than UTF-8?
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RESOLVED: WORKSFORME

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Description Komka Péter 2015-05-28 20:40:21 CEST
Does Thunar support other locales than UTF-8?

My locale's encoding is ISO8859-2.
I have a directory called (for example) "ßßß".
In Thunar:
The file list pane shows the name correctly.
But when I cd into that directory, the location bar shows a round red alert sign and three boxes with (if I see properly) FFFD.

If I rename (via F2) the directory from ßßß to ßßßß, then Thunar uses UTF8-encoding - despite that the locale is NOT UTF8 in any way.
Now the directory name is showed ßßßß both in file list view and (when cd-ed into) in the location bar. But, ls-ing in a terminal, the file name is showed "Ă?Ă?Ă?Ă?". (So I have to rename it back in the terminal to a proper ISO8859-2 name.)

Thunar's version is 1.6.3, my Ubuntu is kept up-to-date.
Comment 1 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-05-28 20:46:39 CEST
Try 1.6.10, it has some fixes for the location bar. But I am not sure about this and I don't think there have been such fixes for renaming...
Comment 2 alexxcons editbugs 2017-06-21 23:29:02 CEST
There is already an open bug for filename-encoding: 5346 I think this one can be closed.
Comment 3 alexxcons editbugs 2017-06-21 23:42:35 CEST
... args I was to fast .. is a related bug, but not the same than 5346, sorry
Comment 4 Andre Miranda editbugs 2018-07-06 02:08:27 CEST
I can't reproduce with Thunar 1.8.1 when launched with LANG=en_GB.iso88591.
Files and folders with 'ß' are created, renamed and displayed without issues and ls -la list them correctly.
Closing, please reopen if this is still a issue for you.

P.S. Out of curiosity, what's the reason for not using UTF-8?

Bug #11940

Reported by:
Komka Péter
Reported on: 2015-05-28
Last modified on: 2018-07-06

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