[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#514841: Bug#514841: gnome-bluetooth: gnome-obex-send doesn't send a file correctly if the filename contains non-ASCII characters.

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:46:54PM +0900, Morita Sho wrote:
> When I sent a file that named "β.txt", (Note: 'β' is a character U+03B2 in Unicode)
> 
>   $ gnome-obex-send "β.txt"
> 
> Then hcidump outputs the following.
> 
> < ACL data: handle 38 flags 0x02 dlen 36
>     L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 32 [psm 3]
>       RFCOMM(d): UIH: cr 1 dlci 2 pf 0 ilen 28 fcs 0x9a 
>         OBEX: Put cmd(f): len 28
>         Name (0x01) = Unicode length 14
>         0000: 00 ce 00 b2 00 2e 00 74  00 78 00 74 00 00        .......t.x.t..
> 
> The filename seems to be sent as an Unicode string.
> I think the problem is the character 'β' was incorrectly translated to "00 ce 00 b2".
> The character 'β' must be represented as "03 B2" in Unicode.

thanks for the bug, the investigation and the patch!
out of curiosity: does this work sending with bluetooth-applet (package
bluez-gnome) ?

filippo
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