[Bug 59529] Problems with paths containing non-ASCII character in non-UTF8 locale

[Francis J. Lacoste]

Public bug reported:

My system is using the fr_CA locale with the ISO-8859-1 character set.
In gnumeric, when I try to save a file in a directory that contains non-
ASCII characters, I get an 'Error' dialog with the following message:
"Not a valid UTF-8 filename."

It still creates a file in the directory but it is empty.

If I use the 'Create directory' function in the file browser dialog, the
directory is created with UTF-8 encoding (it should be created in the
same charset than my locale.)

Example directory:

$ export LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.iso-8859-1"
$ mkdir ~/Répertoire

** Affects: gnumeric (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Problems with paths containing non-ASCII character in non-UTF8 locale
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59529