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Xinix

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 83

Cannot open attachments with diacritics in Thunderbird

When I receive an attachment in Thunderbird that has non-ASCII characters in the name (eg 'españa.pdf') I get an error that the file cannot be opened. The error message shows something like '/tmp/espa?na.pdf'.

Strangely enough, this works in MEPIS, using the same thunderbird binary and the same profile on the same machine. In MEPIS, the system locale is set to en_IE.utf8, in Arch it is en_GB.utf8, not a significant difference I think.

So, I am stuck. I am wondering, is there a way to set an encoding on a file system? Any other setting that might be involved?

TIA!