.sxw file gets a zip-icon, when scand. letters in the name

[Josh Kress]

Am Mittwoch, den 24.11.2004, 08:31 +0200 schrieb Ari Torhamo:
> I forgot to add that after the file icon changes from zip to sxw, the
> file won't open. Instead I get an error message saying: "Error loading
> document file:///... .../S%C3%A4%C3%A4ti%C3%B6.sxw.
> Object /home/... ...Säätiö.sxw doesn't exist.." (my translation). Don't
> know if you see the text I copied right in your e-mail program. At the
> first time the scandics in the file name are distorted, at the second
> time they are shown right.

Ok, at least on this one I can help you.

I get the same error whenever I try to open files in OOo, which
filenames and/or directories contain non-ASCII characters (e.g.
ö,ä,ü ...). A work-around for this is to simply rename the
directories/filenames that contain those special characters to
ASCII-only filenames.

Maybe OOo doesn't get the proper filename from Gnome when opening a
file. Never investigated into this issue, because I can live with it (In
fact, I got used to problems with special characters, no matter what
computer/OS I use). I hope this will work better as soon as we have
Unicode-Support in Hoary.

Anyway, a friend of mine encountered a similar problem with the MIME
types; in his case Ruby source files. We tried playing with some .mime
files according to some Gnome documentation, but had no success yet. I'm
currently diggin' through the Gnome docs on this and trying some things.
If I succeed, I will tell you!

Regards,
-- 
Jörg 'Josh' Kreß                                         josh at kinjoo.com
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