Bugzilla – Bug 1161816
File dialog used in LibreOffice does not handle special characters
Last modified: 2020-07-15 11:35:11 UTC
Since appr. Jan 6 2020, the file dialog in LibreOffice fails to open folders that contain special characters. The file dialog is not the LibreOffice-internal one but the one from Plasma, as used in many applications. No changes have occured in LibreOffice in that time period, so it is likely that some change in Tumbleweed caused this issue. However, it must be stated that other applications do not have this problem. LibreOffice possibly fails to operate the dialog properly in a way that was acceptable before. I created the following folders: /home/michael/tmp/ça/ /home/michael/tmp/čeština/ /home/michael/tmp/déjà/ /home/michael/tmp/það/ Using strace at the current release state, I get the following output when I run LibreOffice. LibreOffice pops up a warning dialog stating that the selected folder does not exist. openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/?a", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/?e?tina", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/d?j?", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/?a?", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) When I roll back to a distribution state before Jan 6, this is output by strace, and the folders can be opened in LibreOffice. openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/\303\247a", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 32 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/\304\215e\305\241tina", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 32 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/d\303\251j\303\240", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 32 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/michael/tmp/\303\276a\303\260", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 32 It seems as if the Unicode characters are not properly encoded in the current release state. The issue occurs in LibreOffice 6.3.3.2.0 and in 6.4.0.
I can confirm this behaviour with folder names “anæsthesia” (British English) and “ “slàinte-mhath” (Scots Gaelic). libreoffice-6.4.0.2-1.2.x86_64 Tumbleweed-20200121
*** Bug 1162195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's caused by /usr/bin/soffice setting LC_ALL="", which apparently triggers a bug in libicu (it seems to assume "US-ASCII" encoding instead of UTF-8 if LC_ALL is set but empty). See bug#1162882 and https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130080 for details. This has been fixed in LibreOffice upstream yesterday: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/core/+diff/25649502e08a52087dea5e482d34a1d4150f0930^! Btw, you can modify /usr/bin/soffice yourself locally if you don't want to wait for an update, it's a shell script. Just open it in a text editor (as root) and replace these lines: # restore locale setting LC_ALL="$LO_SAVE_LC_ALL" with: # restore locale setting, avoiding to export empty LC_ALL, s. tdf#130080 if [ -n "$LO_SAVE_LC_ALL" ]; then LC_ALL="$LO_SAVE_LC_ALL" else unset LC_ALL fi
I submitted the fix: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/770650
The fix is in Tumbleweed meanwhile.
SUSE-RU-2020:0814-1: An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. Category: recommended (moderate) Bug References: 1161816,1162152,1167223 CVE References: Sources used: SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP1 (src): QR-Code-generator-1.5.0-1.3.2, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-8.16.6, myspell-dictionaries-20191219-3.15.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-7.3.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP1 (src): xmlsec1-1.2.28-7.3.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1 (src): boost-1.66.0-5.3.3, boost-base-1.66.0-5.3.1, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-8.16.6, myspell-dictionaries-20191219-3.15.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-7.3.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP1 (src): boost-1.66.0-5.3.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1 (src): boost-1.66.0-5.3.3, boost-base-1.66.0-5.3.1, myspell-dictionaries-20191219-3.15.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-7.3.2 NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.
openSUSE-RU-2020:0448-1: An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. Category: recommended (moderate) Bug References: 1161816,1162152,1167223 CVE References: Sources used: openSUSE Leap 15.1 (src): QR-Code-generator-1.5.0-lp151.2.1, boost-1.66.0-lp151.5.3.1, boost-base-1.66.0-lp151.5.3.1, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-lp151.3.12.3, myspell-dictionaries-20191219-lp151.2.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-lp151.2.3.1
SUSE-RU-2020:1043-1: An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. Category: recommended (moderate) Bug References: 1161816,1162152,1167223 CVE References: Sources used: SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP5 (src): QR-Code-generator-1.5.0-4.3.3, boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-43.62.3, myspell-dictionaries-20191219-16.24.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP4 (src): QR-Code-generator-1.5.0-4.3.3, boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-43.62.3, myspell-dictionaries-20191219-16.24.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-43.62.3, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, libreoffice-6.4.2.2-43.62.3, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1 SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 HPE Helion Openstack 8 (src): boost-1.54.0-26.9.1, xmlsec1-1.2.28-2.12.1 NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.