There are many places in the scripts of x11-misc/xdg-utils where z is assumed to be the last letter of the alphabet. Just "grep a-z /usr/bin/xdg-*" to see many (all?) of them. In reality, the last letter of the alphabet depends on LC_COLLATE. While I'm aware http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml recommends to set (at least as a system-wide default) LC_COLLATE="C", I would still prefer my file listings to be sorted according to my native language. Usually this does not cause any problems, but xdg-open ceases to open http URLs with LC_COLLATE=et_EE.UTF-8, because the Estonian alphabet goes like "qprsšzžtuv" and "http" is deemed non-alphabetical by the script. In this case, replacing "a-zA-Z" by "[:alpha:]" in /usr/bin/xdg-open solves the issue, but, as the aforementioned grep shows, there are other potential problematic lines to be (hopefully) analogously patched. To reproduce my problem, run LC_COLLATE=et_EE.UTF-8 xdg-open http://www.gentoo.org You should get an annoying message xdg-open: file 'http://www.gentoo.org' does not exist An analogous command LC_COLLATE=C xdg-open http://www.gentoo.org works and opens the respective webpage.
Can you give, +*xdg-utils-1.1.0_rc1_p20111003 (03 Oct 2011) + + 03 Oct 2011; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + +xdg-utils-1.1.0_rc1_p20111003.ebuild: + New snapshot for solving bugs #367993 (x-scheme-handler) and #374015 + (bashism). Thanks to Cyprien Nicolas, Naohiro Aota and "Faustus". A try? If the problem is still there, I suggest you file a bug at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ against xdg-utils component and add a upstream link to this bug.
Yes, it is fixed indeed in x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.0_rc1_p20111003! Can the bug be closed as FIXED now or do we have to wait for #387301 so that the fixed version would be stable?
