On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sometimes, I receive e-mails with attachments whose names contain >> accented characters. When I try to open them, for instance, with >> OpenOffice, I get an error message telling me that the file does not >> exist. The error message indicates a filename with very strange >> characters where the accented characters should be. Then, I have to >> save the file first and then open it. Something similar occurs with >> Firefox, when trying to open files with accented characters in their >> names. Is there some solution for this problem? My e-mail client is >> Thunderbird, and I am running F9. > > I'm guessing there might be a conflict between your locale and the MIME > encoding of the filename in TBird. If you save an attachment under its > default name can you then open it without any further editing of the > filename? Yes, I can Patrick, if I save an attachment under its default name I can then open it without any further editing of the filename. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
