fails to open files with colons in their name

[jackyf]

Debian user reports:

"A file name such as "Title:_Subtitle.epub" will fail to open in fbreader. There is no indication of any problem, it just opens a previous file instead. My guess is it is assuming any colon means it was given an url, and then supressing the error treating the non-url as an url."

Original report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673423

[kaefert]

Actually, any file with a colon in the name will fail to open and instead make fbreader display the previously opened book.

This results in fbreader not beeing able to display ANY book opened from a remote location in Linux Mint or systems that handle remote locations similarly, since they are mounted to directories like: /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=...

For reference, see also: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?311440-fbreader-does-not-accept-colon-quot-quot-in-file-name