Public bug reported: gthumb (version 2.10.11) ignores locale settings and cannot display images with non-ASCII filenames.
framstag@diaspora:~: locale LANG=en_US.iso885915 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_CTYPE="en_US.iso885915" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.iso885915" LC_TIME="en_US.iso885915" LC_COLLATE="en_US.iso885915" LC_MONETARY="en_US.iso885915" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.iso885915" LC_PAPER="en_US.iso885915" LC_NAME="en_US.iso885915" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.iso885915" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.iso885915" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.iso885915" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.iso885915" LC_ALL= framstag@diaspora:~: set | grep ^G_ G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=en_US.iso885915 G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale framstag@diaspora:~: ls -l x*png -rw-r--r-- 1 framstag users 302561 2011-12-22 11:37 xöx.png framstag@diaspora:~: gthumb x*png (gthumb:24659): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() ... and gthumb does not display the image, though other image viewers like eog have no problem with it! framstag@diaspora:~: lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Release: 10.04 framstag@diaspora:~: apt-cache policy gthumb gthumb: Installed: 3:2.11.2.1.is.2.10.11-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3:2.11.2.1.is.2.10.11-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3:2.11.2.1.is.2.10.11-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: gthumb (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/907790 Title: gthumb ignores locale and cannot handle non-ASCII filenames To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gthumb/+bug/907790/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs