Open Terminal Here in Folders with Spaces or Special Characters [$50]

Bug #1360228 reported by Hugo Vieira
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Files
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Terminal
Fix Released
Medium
Akshay Shekher

Bug Description

"pantheon-terminal -w, --working-directory=" doesn't work when the path to the directory has special characters.
In addition "Open Terminal Here" feature doesn't work, mainly on non-English systems.

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Hugo Vieira (hmvieira32)
description: updated
tags: added: in open terminal
removed: apport-crash freya i386 need-i386-retrace third-party-packages
tags: added: open-in-terminal
removed: in open terminal
Hugo Vieira (hmvieira32)
information type: Private → Public
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Pedro Monteiro (pedro.monteiro) wrote : Re: Open Terminal Here in Folders with Special Characters

The bug is in Terminal's "Set shell working directory"

summary: - Open Terminal Here in Folders with Accents
+ Open Terminal Here in Folders with Special Characters
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
tags: added: pantheon-terminal working-directory
Hugo Vieira (hmvieira32)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Niclas Lockner (niclasl) wrote :

The OptionContext object that parses the argument doesn't seem to allow non-english characters. I tried with "-w åäö" and got:

** (pantheon-terminal:13132): ERROR **: PantheonTerminal.vala:219: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

It also breaks on folders with spaces in the name.

summary: - Open Terminal Here in Folders with Special Characters
+ Open Terminal Here in Folders with Spaces or Special Characters
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
milestone: none → freya-rc1
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
assignee: nobody → Akshay Shekher (voldyman)
Revision history for this message
Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :
summary: - Open Terminal Here in Folders with Spaces or Special Characters
+ Open Terminal Here in Folders with Spaces or Special Characters [$50]
RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
milestone: freya-rc1 → freya-beta2
Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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