Greek Letters appaer as octal UTF-8 codes in Dolphin or NetworkManager

athanassios · July 12, 2024, 3:12pm

Tried openSUSE and kubuntu live USB s. On both Dolphin can manage my filesystem correctly.

So, since I have the exact same behavior on both my kubuntu’s – desktop and laptop, it must is either something that I do wrong, or a Kubuntu update messing things up.

Let’s suppose that I am to blame, what am I doing to mess things up?

jsalatas · July 12, 2024, 4:56pm

Try the following commands just in case (hope I don’t have a type) and see if something changes

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 el_GR el_GR.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Also try launching dolphin from the terminal with different locale like for example

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 dolphin

or

LC_ALL=C dolphin

athanassios · July 14, 2024, 8:41am

Tried this:

thanassis@hades ~» sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 el_GR el_GR.UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
[sudo] password for thanassis: 
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  el_GR.ISO-8859-7... done
  el_GR.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
thanassis@hades ~» sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales 
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  el_GR.ISO-8859-7... done
  el_GR.UTF-8... done
  en_AG.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IL.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NG.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZM.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
thanassis@hades ~» LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 dolphin
kf.kio.core: "The file or folder /mnt/culture/MyMusic/Hellenic/ΔΙΦΩΝΟ/1995 - ΔΙΦΩΝΟ 002 - Γυρίζοντας στις 45 στροc does not exist."
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
QLayout::removeWidget: Cannot remove a null widget.
kf.kio.core: "The file or folder /mnt/culture/MyMusic/Hellenic/ΔΙΦΩΝΟ/1995 - ΔΙΦΩΝΟ 002 - Γυρίζοντας στις 45 στροc does not exist."

then this:

thanassis@hades ~» LC_ALL=el_GR.UTF-8 dolphin
kf.kio.core: "The file or folder /mnt/culture/MyMusic/Hellenic/ΔΙΦΩΝΟ/1995 - ΔΙΦΩΝΟ 002 - Γυρίζοντας στις 45 στροc does not exist."

Opened the terminal windows in Dolphin. The terminal recognized the filesystem structure.

I definitely did something to mes this up. But what?

athanassios · July 14, 2024, 10:08am

Seems i ruled out an other option that has been troubling me for some days now. That was, if an other repository, say firefox or libreoffice, had overridden any of my official Ubuntu packages. Ended up (help from ChatGPT) with a script to display all packages not coming from the official Ubuntu repositories. I found nothing suspicious.

The script text is this:

#!/bin/bash

# Inform the user that the process is starting
echo "Please wait, this may take a while..."

# Create an associative array to store packages and their repositories
declare -A package_repos

# Get the total number of packages for progress indication
total_packages=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:Package}\n' | wc -l)
current_package=0

for package in $(dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:Package}\n'); do
    # Increment the current package count
    current_package=$((current_package + 1))
    # Display the progress
    echo -ne "Processing package $current_package of $total_packages\r"

    # Use apt-cache policy to find repository URLs
    repos=$(apt-cache policy $package | grep -Po '(http|https)://[^\s]+')
    for repo in $repos; do
        if [[ $repo != *"ubuntu.com"* ]] && [[ $repo != *"security.ubuntu.com"* ]]; then
            package_repos[$package]+="$repo "
        fi
    done
done

# Print the packages and their repositories, sorted by package name
echo -e "\n\nNon-Ubuntu packages and their repositories:"
for package in $(printf "%s\n" "${!package_repos[@]}" | sort); do
    echo "Package: $package"
    echo "Repositories: ${package_repos[$package]}"
    echo
done

echo "Process completed."

And the results on my system are:

Package: alacenc
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/flacon/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: brave-browser
Repositories: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com 

Package: brave-keyring
Repositories: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com 

Package: firefox
Repositories: https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt https://packages.mozilla.org/apt 

Package: flacon
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/flacon/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: fonts-opensymbol
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: google-chrome-stable
Repositories: https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb 

Package: libreoffice-base-core
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-calc
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-common
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-core
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-draw
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-help-common
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-help-en-gb
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-help-en-us
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-impress
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-kf5
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-l10n-en-gb
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-l10n-en-za
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-math
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-plasma
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-qt5
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-style-breeze
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-style-colibre
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-uiconfig-calc
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-uiconfig-common
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-uiconfig-draw
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-uiconfig-impress
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-uiconfig-math
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-uiconfig-writer
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libreoffice-writer
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libuno-cppu3t64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3t64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3t64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libuno-sal3t64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: libuno-salhelpergcc3-3t64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: mac
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/flacon/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: python3-uno
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: remmina
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: remmina-common
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: remmina-plugin-rdp:amd64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: remmina-plugin-secret:amd64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: remmina-plugin-spice:amd64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: remmina-plugin-vnc:amd64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: remmina-plugin-www:amd64
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu 

Package: ttaenc
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/flacon/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: uno-libs-private
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu 

Package: ure
Repositories: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu

For the moment I am completely out of ideas.