Issue 112690 - Cannot open files in Finder with umlauts in name
Summary: Cannot open files in Finder with umlauts in name
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 105047
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOO320m18
Hardware: Mac Mac OS X 10.5
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: thorsten.martens
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2010-06-25 13:12 UTC by winnall
Modified: 2010-06-28 06:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description winnall 2010-06-25 13:12:29 UTC 
OOo 3.2.1 under Mac OS X 10.5.8 cannot open ODT files whose name contains an umlaut, e.g.

  BP Markübersicht.odt

If the umlaut (ü) is replaced with "ue", it works.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2010-06-25 13:30:38 UTC 
I can't confirm. I've double clicked a file called 'Ätsch' in finder and it
works like charm. How did you try to open? Please give some more details of your
system.
Comment 2 Joost Andrae 2010-06-25 15:00:01 UTC 
which locale do you use ?
Comment 3 winnall 2010-06-25 17:48:45 UTC 
The following information from Disk Utility about the file system might be relevant:

    Format :	Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)

I tried to open the file from the Desktop by double-clicking on it. I get the following error message:

    /Users/steve/Desktop/BP Marktübersicht.odt does not exist.

I changed the name of the file to Ätsch.odt and got the same message ("Ätsch" instead of "BP Marktübersicht", of course).

I get the same error if I try to open the file via File > Open or the introductory "Open a document..." or from the command line via 
"open Ätsch.odt".

If I create an empty text document and try to save it as "Ätsch.odt", a file called "%C4tsch.odt" is created. Double-clicking on that 
opens the file correctly.

In System Preferences > International > Language, I have the following settings:

   British English
   English
   Deutsch
   Français
   ... (several others)

In Terminal, LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 .

I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an Intel iMac 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

What further information would you like?
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld 2010-06-25 19:27:20 UTC 
DUP of Issue 105047?
Comment 5 winnall 2010-06-25 19:40:54 UTC 
I read the other issue. It looks similar. I'm sorry I didn't see it before I posted this one.

I wasn't aware of the Mac OS X locale command. This is its output:

LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

It has in common with the other issue that we are both using British English...
Comment 6 winnall 2010-06-25 20:48:09 UTC 
I've found out what's causing the problem. The locale is set under Mac OS X using

  System Preferences > International > Formats

If I set the region to United Kingdom, everything in the Formats form is reset to UK values. I can then 
double-click on Ätsch.otf, and it opens correctly in Open Office.

However, I live in Switzerland and I want the currency to be Swiss Francs. If I leave the region as UK but 
change the currency to Swiss Francs, double-clicking on Ätsch.otf no longer works.
Comment 7 Olaf Felka 2010-06-28 06:44:05 UTC 
It's duplicate to issue 105047

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 105047 ***
Comment 8 Olaf Felka 2010-06-28 06:44:36 UTC 
Thank you for findings and helping.