Re: Openinig text files with international characters in nautilus

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Polonkai Gergely wrote:
> Nautilus, as (as far as I know) all gnome programs use UTF-8 by 
> default. However, maybe those files was created with a program which 
> uses another charset, e.g one of the ISO charsets. So nautilus cannot 
> view the name correctly, but vim can (since it uses your system-wide 
> locale).
> Nautilus passes a very funny filename in this case to programs, thus 
> it is possible that the specific program won't even start.
>
> The best way to correct this problem is to use UTF-8 as your 
> system-wide locale, but doing this can be a pain.
>
> Regards,
> Gergely Polonkai
This answer would make complete sense to me except that the filenames 
appear fine in the nautilus window (international characters and all) 
perfectly fine.

Also, if I open the files with gedit (from nautilus) gedit opens them 
fine and displays their filenames properly.

Could nautilus display the filenames properly and yet not be able to 
pass the filenames appropriately?  Can gedit somehow "overcome" these 
character problems in a way that vim can't?  Thanks for your answer; I 
will try to see what I can do about my system locale.

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Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque