Bugzilla – Bug 105685
fish:// protocol under Konqueror displays file names as if the encoding were ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:52:20 UTC
Using the "fish://" protocol in Konqueror to view directory contents on a remote machine displays the remote machine's UTF-8 file names incorrectly as if the encoding were ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. Note that I tested that local non-ASCII file names are displayed correctly in Konqueror's file manager. Only the remote non-ASCII UTF-8 file names are displayed incorrectly. Both local and remote machines have locale set to the US English UTF-8 locale. To reproduce the bug: Create some files or directories on a remote SuSE Linux box using some non-ASCII UTF-8 characters. Then try viewing the remote directories/files using fish from Konqueror.
Created attachment 46607 [details] Unicode file name problems with Fish Protocol under Konqueror Perhaps the "fish" protocol has no clue about the remote machine's locale and encoding. Be that as it may, networks of modern Linux machines should default to UTF-8 and, therefore, should assume the default UTF-8 encoding for remote filesystems in the event that other information is lacking ...
The fish kioslave has "make it work with charsets other than latin1" in its TODO. I suggest you add your votes to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105186 .
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED. In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(