Comment 8 for bug 1404934

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

JFTR - quoting Jon Cruz's reply on irc from 2015-05-07 when asked for a quick review of the proposed patch:
«edge conditions on charset conversions are quite tricky (…) the _from_uri uses escaped ASCII and also might start with "file://" , etc. The _from_utf8 deals with neither of those. :-( »

The issue was also brought up on the mailing list (no further replies wrt possible fixes, unfortunately):
http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34173721/