Can not open document with non-english characters in filename

asked 2020-09-21 12:18:59 +0100

TJRoh01
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updated 2020-09-21 16:20:21 +0100

For example I have a file named "möbler.odt" (furniture in swedish) and when I try to open it LibreOffice Writer says: "/path/to/file/m??bler.odt does not exist."

If I replace the ö with an o it works. I have the swedish language pack installed (for the system and for LibreOffice). I am using Fedora KDE (Plasma version 5.18.5, LO Writer version 6.4.6).

Any help is very appreciated!

edit 1: filesystem is ext4 within LUKS; edit 2: removed writer tag since this affects all LO programs; edit 3: it only affects LO programs, everything else works fine; edit 4: edit version from Fedoras version to just the LO version;

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I have the same configuration (swedish pack excepted) and it works here. Which file system have you formatted your disks with? ext4 (or btrfs) have no problem with UTF-8 names but other file systems may be limited if they don't use Unicode.

PS:retag to remove either writer or common. I suspect this happens with all components (Calc, Impress, Writer, …) as I think it is OS-related. common covers all components and writer is redundant.

ajlittoz ( 2020-09-21 12:31:26 +0100 )edit

I am using ext4 within LUKS

TJRoh01 ( 2020-09-21 12:32:29 +0100 )edit

Thanks for tip with tags :) Fixed it. It does affect all LO programs

TJRoh01 ( 2020-09-21 12:37:10 +0100 )edit

What's your locale?

gabix ( 2020-09-21 13:08:35 +0100 )edit

My locale output looks like this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

TJRoh01 ( 2020-09-21 13:09:51 +0100 )edit

Weird. The locale is fine. Does the problem appear when you try to open files from LibreOffice dialog or from you file manager?

gabix ( 2020-09-21 13:20:26 +0100 )edit

It happens in both

TJRoh01 ( 2020-09-21 13:42:48 +0100 )edit

I don't know the format you give your LibreOffice version in. By what means did you get it?
There isn't a specific Writer version.
Can you confirm that your ö in the FileName actually is U+00F6 or U+00F8?
[Why did you use a German umlaut (French o with trema?) for a Swedish ø?]

Lupp ( 2020-09-21 15:58:19 +0100 )edit

It was Fedoras version, fixed it. LO version is 6.4.6.

I think you got Swedish confused with Danish/Norwegian ;) It is without doubt U+00F6 ö and supposed to be so.

TJRoh01 ( 2020-09-21 16:22:54 +0100 )edit

Out of ideas. Just for clarity: is the file in question located on an ext4 partition or on an NTFS/FAT partition?

gabix ( 2020-09-21 16:27:59 +0100 )edit

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Interesting. Well I have a dedicated ö key on my keyboard. Will test around with character codes.

TJRoh01 ( 2020-09-21 17:30:59 +0100 )edit

Just tested with filenames containing the sequence U+006F, U+0308 on Win 10.
The OS accepts that.
LibO V 7.0.1 (64bit) and LibO V 6.4.4 (x64) both handle it, too.
The behaviour of the cursor going over a U+0308 is slightly different, though. Anyway the effects may depend on the OS.

My old general and serious advice:
Use only syntactically clean names for folders and files: No spaces or special characters at all, whether the system and other software pretend to accept them or not. No use in localization spilling over!
Unfortunately we cannot make undone the lots of pointless stubborn "extensions" to the latin alphabet invented over centuries. They simply are a plague.

Lupp ( 2020-09-21 17:56:04 +0100 )edit

@Lupp wrote:
My old general and serious advice:
Use only syntactically clean names for folders and files: No spaces or special characters at all, whether the system and other software pretend to accept them or not. No use in localization spilling over!
+1

Grantler ( 2020-09-21 18:01:03 +0100 )edit

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