Hi Péter, thanks for your investigation!
There is already an open bugs on this issue: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5346 For now I just added your mail to the bug. Probably the information can speed up the fix. Feel free to add more, if you like! I am sorry to say that currently not much happens on the different thunar bugs. Maybe things will change after thunar got ported to gtk3. Cheers, Alex On 21.06.2017 18:51, Péter wrote: > Hi, > > Please add to the wish list: > To convert file names if source and target text encoding differs. > (In order to fully integrate possibly differently encoded filesystems > into one.) > > For example, an smb: location can have utf8-encoded filenames and the > local filesystem can have iso88592-encoded (latin2) filenames. When > copying a file, then the (abstract) *characters* are to be preserved. > Not the bytes. In order to preserve the characters, Thunar should > first decode (interpret) the byte sequence, then when writing out (to > a dirrefent location) it should encode the characters into byte sequence. > > Already exists a G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable, but it > cannot distinguish nor express different locations. With > "G_FILENAME_ENCODING=UTF8,iso88592": when I copy a file from a > utf8-location to a latin2-location then Thunar copies the filename > byte sequence unchanged (despite that probably, in order to show the > name properly, Thunar did decoding, from bytes to characters). When I > copy a file from latin2-location to utf8-location then Thunar fails > with "Invalid argument". > > rsync do have options to translate (=preserve characters) filenames. > "--iconv=LOCAL,REMOTE" "Rsync can convert filenames between character > sets using this option." > > smbnetfs also has config options for converting filenames. >> Module options: >> [iconv] >> -o from_code=CHARSET >> original encoding of file names (default: UTF-8) >> -o to_code=CHARSET >> new encoding of the file names (default: UTF-8) > > I cannot (of course) surely determine exactly which software > component's business is (should be) such a glueing. Please feel free > to determine (forward this request to the proper recipients). (It may > be, for example, "gvfs-mount" or such component.) > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
