[Bug 177929] Re: We needs file encoding select function.

2010-01-22 Thread Adam Kane
The issue's been known since 3 June 2005! -- We needs file encoding select function. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177929 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 htt

[Bug 177929] Re: We needs file encoding select function.

2010-01-22 Thread Adam Kane
This issue has been well known since 2006 and no action has been taken to deal with the issue which affects users with zip files containing filenames encoded with non latin characters. It's a tremendous problem which involves batch renaming of thousands of files. The user must identify the filename

[Bug 177929] Re: We needs file encoding select function.

2010-01-22 Thread Adam Kane
Here's my old post on how to deal with the filename encoding issue. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=144297 Apparently there is an application called utrac that can be used to identify the encoding of a given text, and then convmv can be used to re-encode the filename (text) to the encodi

[Bug 177929] Re: We needs file encoding select function.

2010-01-22 Thread Adam Kane
Bug first reported on 20 March 2006! Please upgrade the importance level from low to something higher! -- We needs file encoding select function. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177929 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. --

[Bug 177929] Re: We needs file encoding select function.

2010-01-22 Thread Adam Kane
Repost from bug 34667. Archives of files with ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames with special characters are not extracted correctly into the default UTF-8 encoded Ubuntu file system. For example, björk.ogg -> bj?rk.ogg (invalid encoding) after extraction from an archive with ISO-8859-1 filenames. The

[Bug 34667] Re: [Bug 34667] Re: ISO-8859-1 Support Missing

2006-04-07 Thread Adam Kane
t performs the conversion, but this is a cumbersome tool for most users. Thank you for looking into this! Adam Kane On 4/6/06, KarlGoetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was unable to reproduce the problem with a test archives i created. > tar.bz2 and tar.gz (file inside called 07

[Bug 34667] ISO-8859-1 Support Missing

2006-03-12 Thread Adam Kane
Public bug reported: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34667 Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed Description: Archives of files with ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames with special characters are not extracted correctly into the