stopmotion add frames reports 'You do not have permission to read that file' when path name has non-ascii utf8 characters

[uwe]

Binary package hint: stopmotion

If i there is an image in a path that includes arabic (and probably reproducable on other non-latin utf8 characters), it will bring a misleading error message "You do not have permission to read that file"

To reporduce, try to create a path such as "/tmp/تجربة" and have an image there, then try to add it as a frame in stopmotion.

[seaofgrass (seaofgrass)]

At ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 spanish version too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[uwe (maabdulhaq)]

Issue is still there in 12.04

[Eric Broneer (ledoc)]

I can't add an image from a path that contains an "é" character. In French, the default "Video" folder is called "Vidéo". If I move the files to a path that doesn't contain a non-ASCII character, it works.

[Trucoto (trucoto)]

Same for Spanish "Imágenes" and "Vídeo", default folder names in Ubuntu.