Nautilus encoding problem

pinky99 · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 45

Hallo,

this is the problem:
My system is entirely relying on ISO8859-15/de_DE@euro encoding.
As I read, gnome is, at least for filenames in nautilus, always assuming, that the names are encoded in utf-8.
as a workaround to use the locale setting for filename encoding in nautilus, one could set the
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES environment variable.

I did it and it didn't help. but surprisingly as root, the same filenames which cannot be displayed as user are correct interpreted.

Has anybody a clue for me, which setting/environment variable can be different in these two users?

Thanks,
max

chrbecke · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

I'd suspect any of the LANG or LC_* variables. To find out, open a gnome-terminal and do as root

pinky99 · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 45

hmm, i don't see any big differences between the two environment variables, just where it must be different like PPID, paths, HISTORY etc.

LANG and LC_* are completely the same!
can it be, that some settings in .gnome or elsewhere are responsible for the different behaviour?

Thanks,
max

chrbecke · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

Hmm, don't know... You could try by creating a new user and see if file names display correctly if you run gnome from this new account.

pinky99 · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 45

hmm, well, i just created a new user, and it worked with it, too!

then i moved the .gnome and .gnome2 directories to another location, but still nautilus did behave in the wrong way!

Are there any other locations, where settings are stored?

Thanks,
max

chrbecke · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject:

Yes:

~/.gconf
~/.gconfd
~/.gnome2_private
~/.nautilus

pinky99 · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 45

chrbecke · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

You could try moving your entire home directory out of the way, create a new empty home dir for your user and try again.

pinky99 · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 45