Language settings

[Klaus Kolle]

Hi

I've upgraded my Fedora KDE 27 to 29 recently. Now I cannot open
documents, etc. that contains Danish letters.

In Regional->Language settings I have British English set with dansk as
a second choice, because I prefer to have all program menus etc. in
English rather than mixed English and Danish.

In Regional->Format settings I have Danmark set for the region an also
in the Detailed settings everything is set to Danmark for numbers, time,
currency, measurement unit and collation and sorting.

Anytime a file or the path to the file contains æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø or Å
Libreoffice fails to load the document. In the previous version of
Fedora it worked well.

What could be wrong?

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[Ed Greshko]

On 11/21/18 9:41 PM, Klaus Kolle wrote:
> I've upgraded my Fedora KDE 27 to 29 recently. Now I cannot open
> documents, etc. that contains Danish letters.
>
> In Regional->Language settings I have British English set with dansk as
> a second choice, because I prefer to have all program menus etc. in
> English rather than mixed English and Danish.
>
> In Regional->Format settings I have Danmark set for the region an also
> in the Detailed settings everything is set to Danmark for numbers, time,
> currency, measurement unit and collation and sorting.
>
> Anytime a file or the path to the file contains æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø or Å
> Libreoffice fails to load the document. In the previous version of
> Fedora it worked well.
>
> What could be wrong?

I tried what you're doing on an newly installed F29 system and it works OK.

I note that in F27 libreoffice was version 5.4 while in F29 it is now 6.1.  It may be a
configuration issue with the version changes of libreoffice, just a guess.

I would create a new user and see if that new user has the same issues.

FWIW, the file I tested with was ~/ååå/å.odt.

Sorry, I'm more familiar with CJK character sets than European.  :-)

Oh, in testing my locale was

LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_TIME=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[Kevin Kofler]

Klaus Kolle wrote:
> Anytime a file or the path to the file contains æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø or Å
> Libreoffice fails to load the document. In the previous version of
> Fedora it worked well.
>
> What could be wrong?

On what file system are those files?

File names on GNU/Linux file systems (ext*, xfs, btrfs, …) use the locale 
character set for their file names. So, e.g., if you created the files with 
a legacy en_GB locale and are now using en_GB.UTF-8, you have a problem. 
(Please note, however, that the UTF-8 locales have always been the default 
in Fedora, the switch to UTF-8 happened during the Red Hat Linux era.) The 
convmv utility can help fix such incorrectly encoded file names.

File names on Windows file systems (vfat, ntfs, exfat, …) use UTF-16 for 
their file names. So there is a mount option telling the kernel to which
8-bit character set the file names should be recoded to. This should be set 
to UTF-8.

Kevin Kofler

[Klaus Kolle]

Den 11/22/18 kl. 5:47 AM skrev Kevin Kofler:
> Klaus Kolle wrote:

Kevin,
> > Anytime a file or the path to the file contains æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø or Å
> > Libreoffice fails to load the document. In the previous version of
> > Fedora it worked well.
> >
> > What could be wrong?
>
> On what file system are those files?

Local filesystems as well as on NFS

KWrite og Calligra Words seems not to have the problem. Therefore it
must be a LibreOffice problem, I guess.

I tried to rename the ~/.config/libreoffice folder but with no success.

On an other login that I only use for testing purposes LiberOffice works
all right.

So in this ancient old home directory LibreOffice may pick up something
from the KDE configuration or the general configuration. I just can't
figure out from where.

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