My system works in Spanish as default language. When I try to open a compressed file with a Spanish special character in its name, File Roller cannot read the character. If I double click the file, it presents the following message: "Ha ocurrido un error mientras se extraían los archivos" ("An error had occurred when trying to extract the files" and inside the case: "caution: filename not matched:" and the file name. If I try to rename the file, the commands are in gray, cannot be used. Only "Open", "Open with..." and "Extract" are available. If I use them, the same error message will be shown.
It fails with á é í ó ú ü and ñ (and their capital versions). They are essential in Spanish! If they cannot be seen in this message, a list is available in http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-sp.htm.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: file-roller 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 2 08:17:57 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101008.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=es_CO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (49 days ago)
Thanks for the report, I also have my system on Spanish and the only time i've seen that is when i uncompress a file with 'special characters (spanish, hebrew,etc)' into an fat/ntfs filesystem, where are you uncompressing those?