Does Thunar support other locales than UTF-8? My locale's encoding is ISO8859-2. I have a directory called (for example) "ßßß". In Thunar: The file list pane shows the name correctly. But when I cd into that directory, the location bar shows a round red alert sign and three boxes with (if I see properly) FFFD. If I rename (via F2) the directory from ßßß to ßßßß, then Thunar uses UTF8-encoding - despite that the locale is NOT UTF8 in any way. Now the directory name is showed ßßßß both in file list view and (when cd-ed into) in the location bar. But, ls-ing in a terminal, the file name is showed "Ă?Ă?Ă?Ă?". (So I have to rename it back in the terminal to a proper ISO8859-2 name.) Thunar's version is 1.6.3, my Ubuntu is kept up-to-date.
Try 1.6.10, it has some fixes for the location bar. But I am not sure about this and I don't think there have been such fixes for renaming...
There is already an open bug for filename-encoding: 5346 I think this one can be closed.
... args I was to fast .. is a related bug, but not the same than 5346, sorry
I can't reproduce with Thunar 1.8.1 when launched with LANG=en_GB.iso88591. Files and folders with 'ß' are created, renamed and displayed without issues and ls -la list them correctly. Closing, please reopen if this is still a issue for you. P.S. Out of curiosity, what's the reason for not using UTF-8?