Shotcut can't deal with "&" in export paths/names

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  • What is your operating system?

Linux - Tuxedo OS - installed via Flatpak

  • What is your Shotcut version (see Help > About Shotcut)?

25.05.11

  • Can you repeat the problem? If so, what are the steps?

If the export path contains “&”, the export will fail, log shows file cannot be opened. Using a path not containing “&” works.

[consumer avformat] Could not open ‘/media/home-media/alexander/Videos/test & test/test.mp4’

If the export file name contains “&”, export works, but file name shows “&#38” instead of just “&”.

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Hi @SaKage

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Well, yes kinda… But this isn’t intended for internet, otherwise I wouldn’t have used whitespaces either. But I can’t see you arguing not supporting whitespaces would be a normal thing…
And apparently they could sanitize the strings for opening files?
Other apps accept it without problem as well.
And we are in the time, where people complain when apps don’t support emojis in file names…

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Weird that it works in the Windows and Linux AppImage builds but not macOS and Flatpak. Maybe the problem is in libxml2 when decoding the embedded &. These bundles have different versions of that lib.