Bug 712784

Summary: Thunderbird extensions not handled well with VLC
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Turgut Kalfaoglu <turgut>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Turgut Kalfaoglu 2011-06-13 06:53:19 UTC
This bug report appears to belong to several categories therefore I picked distribution. Please do not dismiss it, as it is hindering work immensely.

Problem: When a thunderbird attachment has national characters or other "odd" characters, and these are double-clicked, the opening program cannot find the file. For example, an    example-şöçfaıl.wmv  cannot be opened by VLC.

Windows apparently has no such issues, since windows users are constantly sending me such files.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-06-13 18:37:49 UTC
Moving to thunderbird to see if it can be handled there.

Note that if this is an issue with VLC, there's nothing we can do with it in Fedora, as we don't ship VLC.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-06-17 16:21:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Problem: When a thunderbird attachment has national characters or other "odd"
> characters, and these are double-clicked, the opening program cannot find the
> file. For example, an    example-şöçfaıl.wmv  cannot be opened by VLC.

Could you tell us what exactly thunderbird sends to vlc?

ps -e -o pid,args|grep -i vlc

Thank you

Comment 3 Turgut Kalfaoglu 2011-06-18 05:41:56 UTC
After a double click an attachment, I see something like:


 2600 /bin/bash /usr/bin/vlc /tmp/S?FEK OMYA.wmv

The "?" character was the dotted U..

Comment 4 Jan Horak 2012-05-03 13:07:09 UTC
Sorry for very late reply.
Could you please attach such message? To save message use right mouse button on message body and choose Save as...
Since thunderbird is using GIO to work with files this could be already fixed so please retest if possible.

Comment 5 Turgut Kalfaoglu 2012-05-03 13:27:05 UTC
That is not even necessary -- thunderbird, when it saves an attachment to its temp folder (that has national or otherwise "weird" characters in it), it should replace it with something innocous, such as an underscore. That way, any viewer program will not choke on such filenames..

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