My Version: Ubuntu 7.10 I'm not the network administrator, but I assume that there is: - a samba fileserver accessible through smb for windows/linux/mac - a ssh-server mounting the samba-filesystem and making it accessible through sftp.
What I did: - Connect to the ssh-server using the "connect to server..." entry. - choose "ssh" and provide valid credentials - open the connection and browse the files - if there are special characters in the filenames, i.e. äöèàéü, it's *possible* that these characters are not shown but result in the error message appended to the filename: "invalid unicode". What I think could be the reason for this behaviour: - a user creates a document and names it i.e. "Lösungen" - he copies/drag'n'drops the file into a folder on the fileserver (probably connected through smb) - the filename keeps its OS-specific encoding, but samba or the ssh server or nautilus think it should be utf8 (or some other encoding) What behaviour I'd expect: - Nautilus converts the charset based on the protocol's (file/ssh/smb/ftp/...) charset - if there is no charset provided, nautilus assumes that it's utf8 - if there are characters that can't be rendered properly, nautilus asks what charset the user preferes (i.e. by showing the file's name in different charsets, similar to the font-family dropdown in open office which displays the font's name and the font's name in the very font) - if it's not utf8, the user should have an option in "edit->preferences" to force a charset for specific locations I've attached to this mail: - Another example (spaces in filenames don't matter) - An UI-proposal of the dialog that I'd like to appear cheers _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ** Attachment added: "Nautilus-Charset-2.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15179656/Nautilus-Charset-2.png ** Attachment added: "ui-proposal.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15179657/ui-proposal.png -- Unable to change charset (Feature request) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
