Comment 3 for bug 335855

This is especially annoying for russian users because the usual name for desktop directory is "Рабочий стол" - literally "Working table". So any software that cannot work with directories, located on the desktop produces inconvinience.

Another example is alien utility which completely cannot work with non-English names in path, so one even cannot run it for software stored in "Загрузки" (standard Gnome name for download directory in Russian locale), neither from desktop, nor fron home directory of a user with Cyrillic name.