<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - C locale is currently broken for file handling" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125995#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - C locale is currently broken for file handling" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125995">bug 125995</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:glogow@fbihome.de" title="Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@fbihome.de>"> Jan-Marek Glogowski</a> <pre>Thanks for the input. The gen file picker also works - as expected - if I set LANG=C.UTF-8. I forgot that, thanks for the reminder. (In reply to Stephan Bergmann from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=125995#c1">comment #1</a>) > (In reply to Jan-Marek Glogowski from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=125995#c0">comment #0</a>) > > I'm not sure why you qualify this issue with "currently". The behavior > should be as it is ever since OOo. Ok. So I tried to find the definition for the C / POSIX locale and found: <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html">https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html</a> and <a href="http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html">http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html</a> What I actually couldn't find is a setting, which has any meaning with regard to the filesystem encoding. If you say file names are just strings, then LC_CTYPE might match, but IMHO that's today a long shot. So now arises the question: should / can we change the C locale to default to UTF-8 for interpreting filenames instead of ISO_8859_1, which is today much more common? I don't know if this actually does match. And I'm also not sure this is feasible in a sensible matter in LO, but somehow Qt and Gtk+ make this assumption and act accordingly. I'm not aware of any other system API, which could be queried for something like that. I tested gimp on Windowmaker with xterm and LANG=C. Still there might be some system setting.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>