Attachment cannot handle plus sign in filename

[hackerb9]

It turns the plus sign into a space. To replicate:

1. Create a document in Open Office and save it as "foo+bar"
2. File → Send → Email Document
3. Immediately a notification pops up from Gnome Gmail that it could not find the file "foo bar"

I do not experience this bug when I rename the file "foo&bar".

[davesteele]

This is actually intentional. URL decoding maps pluses to spaces. Mailto URLs in the wild often count on the plus being interpreted as a space.

[hackerb9]

So, is this a bug in Open Office then? They should be percent encoding plus signs in filenames?

[davesteele]

I believe so. More specifically, the script senddoc.sh.

Though gnome-gmail's handling of escapes could use a closer look.

[hackerb9]

I will file a bug with Libre Office, it seems they do try to percent encode the filename, but the program /usr/lib/libreoffice/uri-encode doesn't transmogrify plus signs.

In the meantime, and perhaps to avoid future problems, would it be possible for GG to do a double check for an incorrectly URI encoded filename before popping up the "File not found" error?