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evince package

  1. Bug #160996
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 160996

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote : Re: evince has trouble handling filename with escaped shell characters

confirmed

i renamed an existing pdf file to foo:bar.pdf and typed evince foo\:bar.pdf in a terminal.
evince opened with an error message "the specified location is not supported"
however, double-clicking the same foo:bar.pdf in nautilus opens it in evince without a problem...