[Bug 510018]

[Ivo Anjo]

(In reply to Nathan Shearer from comment #166)
> I just extracted an archive which contained a file that I could not
> copy/edit/move/rename/delete with dolphin. The file was simple readme file
> inside a nested subdirectory called L'$'\351''ame.html'
> 
> The error messages in dolphin were extremely vague and did not indicate in
> an way that KDE and QT are incapable by design of handling files with these
> encoding. They did not inform the user why the file was causing these
> problems or even hint that they needed to be renamed in a terminal because
> of a WONTFIX on this bug.
> 
> The only reason I knew what to do is because I encountered this bug years
> ago when operations on these files actually worked. Any normal user will
> have absolutely no idea what to do, and higher level systems will not handle
> these failures gracefully when these directory structures can't be modified
> because of a simple filename.
> 
> The file or folder L'$'\351''ame.html' does not exist.
>  - This is _false_ it does exist!
> Could not delete file L'$'\351''ame.html'.
>  - No reason provided whatsoever. The user will not know how to solve this
> problem.
> Could not remove folder "".
>  - All other files deleted, but the nested file was ignored leaving the user
> confused.
> 
> This is ridiculous.
> 
> It might be a lot of work, but a solution to this problem would be to store
> these strings as a tuple, where there is a degraded and user-friendly
> version of the string and the original unmodified string. If no changes are
> made to the string, use the original unmodified string. If the user decides
> to change the string, then they are interacting with the degraded version
> and deciding to keep that new string.

Hello there -- I'm the original reporter of this bug.

Since this one is marked as fixed, my suggestion would be to open a new
bug report, as the issue you saw may be a regression, rather than the
same as this bug, and it helps keep the discussion focused.

Also, if possible, my suggestion is to also include an archive that
triggers this issue as an attachment, so developers can quickly jump on
this one.

Happy KDE'ing and happy easter everyone!

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  Cannot delete file with bad filename

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