SAMBA client fails when remote folder contains Unicode characters in KDE 4.1

[Carl Hoffman]

Binary package hint: dolphin-kde4

Running Kubuntu 8.10 beta with latest patches as of the time of this report.

Connect to a Windows shared folder with some Unicode (non-ASCII) characters in a toplevel file or subfolder triggers a complaint for every such file or folder scanned.

This occurs only in KDE 4.1, under either Dolphin or Konqueror.

This does -not- occur in KDE 3.5 (Kubuntu 8.04) or GNOME Ubuntu 8.10 beta.

[Carl Hoffman (cwh2008)]

Except it is more than just Dolphin. Konqueror also fails. I think it
is something deeper in KDE4.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Thomas
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 9:58 PM
> To: Carl Hoffman
> Subject: [Bug 282395] Re: SAMBA client fails when remote
> folder containsUnicode characters in KDE 4.1
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 249073 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249073
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 249073
> Dolphin can't open SMB folders whose name contains an accent
>
> --
> SAMBA client fails when remote folder contains Unicode
> characters in KDE 4.1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282395
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>
> Status in "kdebase-kde4" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: dolphin-kde4
>
> Running Kubuntu 8.10 beta with latest patches as of the time
> of this report.
>
> Connect to a Windows shared folder with some Unicode
> (non-ASCII) characters in a toplevel file or subfolder
> triggers a complaint for every such file or folder scanned.
>
> This occurs only in KDE 4.1, under either Dolphin or Konqueror.
>
> This does -not- occur in KDE 3.5 (Kubuntu 8.04) or GNOME
> Ubuntu 8.10 beta.
>

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Konq uses an embedded Dolphin part for file browsing, so it'd make sense that Konq is affected too.
  It could also be an issue with the samba kio slave which lives in kdebase-runtime, but it'd probably be more "human" (read: non-dev) findable in the kdebase section. But then again it could be a Dolphin KPart issue too. I think it'd probably be best to leave the packaging assignment how it is until upstream can comment on the bug further.