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Bug 141818 - Non-English characters in file names cause mime type misdetection
Non-English characters in file names cause mime type misdetection
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143433
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME and file/program mapping
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-05-04 14:07 UTC by Jonas Jensen
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Jonas Jensen 2004-05-04 14:07:56 UTC 
Create a Word document "x.doc". It will have the correct mime type
"application/msword" in Nautilus. Rename it to "é.doc" and it will have the
(correct, but less precise) mime type "application/x-ole-storage". This changes
the icon and the program associated with it.

Some experimentation revals that this affects all file names containing accented
characters except ÿ (which happens to have the code 0xff in latin1). 

All my LC_* and LANG* variables are set to en_US.
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2004-07-20 20:00:48 UTC 
Maybe related to #143433
Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-12-09 21:56:32 UTC 
I cannot reproduce this one.
Comment 3 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-12-10 15:19:06 UTC 
Can you test if this is still reproducable in gnome 2.8?
Comment 4 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-12-10 15:25:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143433 ***
Comment 5 Jonas Jensen 2004-12-11 15:49:00 UTC 
I cannot reproduce this bug in Gnome 2.8, so I guess it's fixed. Word documents
with the .doc file extension are now detected as application/vnd.ms-word whether
or not their names contain 8-bit characters.