ISO-8859-1 Support Missing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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file-roller (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Archives of files with ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames with special characters are not extracted correctly into the default UTF-8 encoded Ubuntu ext3 file system.
For example, björk.ogg -> bj?rk.ogg (invalid encoding) after extraction from an archive with ISO-8859-1 filenames.
The UTF-8 migration tool does not rectify this problem, and the migration tool does not work at all on partitions outside /home.
Within a UTF-8 encoded file system, File-Roller should be able to seemlessly extract files with non-UTF-8 encoded filenames, so that the user does not have to manually convert the filenames as a second step.
Many users are needlessly shocked to learn that they seem to have lost all their filename encoding after migrating to Ubuntu.
If Dapper is to be a platform for business users, then this issue must be rectified.
Thanks for your bug. Do you have an example to attach to the bug about that issue?