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zyxnull

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Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 13

Plasma 5: Problems with accented characters

I'm having some problems with accented file names on Plasma 5

For example let's suppose I have the file "CONTRASEÑAS.txt" and the file "CONTRASEÑAS.xlsx", the former can be easily opened by double clicking it on Dolphin, say, gedit, but the latter cannot be oppened by LibreOffice and its states that the file does not exists.

Upon further exploration I can see that on guake's terminal in both file names the accented character is represented with a question mark like this

CONTRASEA??S.txt  CONTRASE??AS.xlsx      [ "?" characters are actually a question mark inside an hexagon ]

But on konsole it is represented ok like this:

CONTRASEÑAS.txt  CONTRASEÑAS.xlsx

If I use Konsole or guake and type "libreoffice CONTRASEÑAS.xlsx" the file successfully opens up in libreoffice, even if it shows up the question mark characters on guake

The problem does not exist other Desktop Environments like Gnome, Cinnamon and Lxde , so this is only related to Plasma desktop

Any ideas?

Last edited by zyxnull (2015-08-30 22:46:45)

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,312

Re: Plasma 5: Problems with accented characters

what's the output of 'locale'?

zyxnull

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Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 13

Re: Plasma 5: Problems with accented characters

Thanks for your reply arojas, it is the following:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

zyxnull

Member

Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 13

Re: Plasma 5: Problems with accented characters

I'm still fighting with this problem, I have some findings

This is my current locale:

C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
es_ES
es_ES.iso88591
es_ES.utf8
POSIX
spanish

- If I launch an application like libreoffice from Plasmas's launcher the application won't work with accents (question marks instead of characters)
- if I launch the same application from konsole with no parameters the application does work with accents.
- Also starting applications with Alt + F2 will fail on accents

I think the blame is on plasmashell, because even if I kill it from Konsole and then restart it it won't launch applications that support characters (except for konsole)

Any ideas?

Last edited by zyxnull (2016-01-16 18:59:03)