{"id":102,"date":"2020-01-06T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.molokaicargo.space\/?p=102"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:20:07","slug":"file-does-not-exist-error-in-libreoffice-on-fedora-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.molokaicargo.space\/index.php\/2020\/01\/06\/file-does-not-exist-error-in-libreoffice-on-fedora-31\/","title":{"rendered":"“File does not exist” error in LibreOffice on Fedora 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Description:<\/strong> When trying to open a document with international characters (“\u00e4\u00e4kk\u00f6set”) in its path or filename, LibreOffice fails to open it and says that the file does not exist”. This is on Fedora 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TL;DR:<\/strong> In KDE settings, set region to “American English (en_US)” and the detailed settings to “Finland (sms_FI)” or “Suomi – suomi (fi_FI)”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longer explanation:<\/strong> From the get-go this seems to be related to locales because the problem only occurs with files with international characters in their path\/filename. Interestingly I could open such files when I started LibreOffice Writer from shell (Konsole\/bash) with “libreoffice –writer”. I decided to check what the locale settings were in Bash and KDE. In Bash I ran “locale” which gave me basically LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″ (I forgot to save the exact output). Then I ran “locale > ~\/locale.txt” from the KDE Application Launcher and checked the output file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANG=sms_FI.UTF-8\nLC_CTYPE=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_NUMERIC=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_TIME=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_COLLATE=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_MONETARY=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_MESSAGES=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_PAPER=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_NAME=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_ADDRESS=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_TELEPHONE=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_MEASUREMENT=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_IDENTIFICATION=\"sms_FI.UTF-8\"\nLC_ALL=<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So the locale settings were in fact different when launching from KDE vs. Bash! I tested that I could actually make the same error happen when launching LibreOffice from Bash by saying “LANG=sms_FI.UTF-8\u00a0 libreoffice –writer”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short explanation of the rationale behind my locale settings: I prefer to use English as my system language (easier to search for error messages etc) but keep the other locale settings to Finnish, except date and time where I like the ISO 8601 date and time formats better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did a lot of reading on the Internet about this but in the end I decided to just set the default system locale to en_US and adjust the date\/time and other settings to sms_FI. If you prefer to use Finnish month names etc. you might like to use fi_FI instead. So far nothing I care about has broken so I guess this is a suitable workaround for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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