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------- Additional comments from sobu...@openoffice.org Tue Nov 24 10:06:00 +0000 2009 ------- I've just been hit by this with OpenOffice 3.0.0 (still habe to upgrade to a more current release, but the state of this issue report leads me to suspect that it won't change behaviour on file encodings). I tried to open a file from the shell, a file I copied from a FAT-formatted USB drive, that has a latin1-character in its name. I have UTF-8 locale on Unix, the file name looks funny in the shell -- but I can work with the file just fine, except with OpenOffice, which lies to me with a straight face: "This file does not exist." People, this is serious failure. Call it bug or enhancement, if you please, but please, please with sugar on top, consider fixing it. This is your program simply refusing to do it's basic work on a file that can be accessed by every other program on the system. File names on UNIX just are byte streams. Encoding from the locale is only there for pretty-printing of these bytes. If OpenOffice starts interpreting and converting the file names according to some encoding rules, it is getting this basic fact plainly wrong and is broken by design. The fix should not be that hard: Just do your encoding magic solely for display, but open the underlying file using the raw bytes you get from the file system. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@framework.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@framework.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
