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jeromerobert / k4dirstat

K4DirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for directory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and graphically (copied from the Debian package description).
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Files/directories with wrong charset are ignored #12

Open jeromerobert opened 9 years ago

jeromerobert commented 9 years ago

Original report by Jerome Robert (Bitbucket: jeromerobert, GitHub: jeromerobert).

Files and directories whose name is not encoded with the charset of the operative system are ignored by k4dirstat. The size of such files will always be 0 and directory will not be recursed.

The reason is that k4dirstat use QString and QUrl to store file names. The good way would be to use char * or QByteArray although this would not work for KIO file systems. May be we need 2 mechanisms:

jeromerobert commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Jerome Robert (Bitbucket: jeromerobert, GitHub: jeromerobert).

Fix lstat on non ASCII file names

Ref #12