Cannot access one's own files

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/17 Sylviane et Perry White <spwhite at freesurf.ch>:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 15:57, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On one particular Kubuntu 8.04 machine, Konqueror randomly does not
>> let it's user open folders with UTF-8 (non-ASCII) names.
>
> Until I find a good answer to that, as well as making sure all the characters
> in a file's/folder's name are displayed correctly, I carefully avoid names
> including french accentuated characters (I also avoid spaces for a different
> reason)
> Actually I dont remember having ever encountered the problem of unrecognised
> names because of non ascii characters right away (on the machine the
> files/folders were created) but only when transferring those to/from another
> operating system (or even linux distro IIRC). [is is your case too?]
> Therefore, since the problem is likely to developp unnoticed for a long time
> it is important to give proper warning.
> When you have only a small number of cases I think the simplest thing to do is
> to manually rename them.
>
> Perry
>

For us the use of non-ASCII characters is important. There are some
words and ideas that cannot be expressed easily in English. I have
been using various Linux distros since 2001 and have been using
nothing but Linux since 2005, so I am convinced that any user with a
UTF-8 locale should be able to use non-ASCII filenames. Changing user
habit is not the way to solve problems. Especially as this is an
intermittent problem, and one confined to a single version of a single
distro.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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