[rox-devel] Re: pb with DnD to foreign app of filenames containing spaces or non-ASCII chars

[Fabien C. <fco...@fr...>]

Fabien COUTANT <fcoutant <at> freesurf.fr> writes:
> regression with DnD from filer to some other apps:
> - DnD to gcombust (a GTK1.2 app) works only for filenames that don't contain 
any 
> special character;  All characters outside US-ASCII range, and space, are 
> transmitted with %xx escaping, such that the dropped filenames point nowhere.

After digging in gcombust sources it appears to be a "feature":  the %xx 
unescaping occurs depending on whether the drop is a copy or a move: copy => 
don't decode, move => *do* decode !

So now I've got a (tested) workaround: hold Shift while dragging the files to 
gcombust... not sure if someone should add it to a FAQ.

> could you make this "content-transfer-encoding" an 
> option to add to the compatibility tab, just like the "hostname" one ?

I meant something like "Don't escape non-ASCII characters".
This may still be appropriate: my workaround only works with gcombust, maybe 
other apps forgot the %xx decoding (not sure any more).

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Thanks,
Fabien.