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I searched the web, but I can only find information that explains what the modal dialog is. I would like to know why it's called that. The modality defined in that way. In linguistics and philosophy, modality is the phenomenon whereby …

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GUI: Why is the modal dialog/window called in such a way "Modal"?

I searched the web, but I cannot find something that explains what the modal dialog is. But I would like to know why it's called like that. The modality defined in that way. In linguistics and philosophy, modality is the phenomenon whe…

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unzip archive with filenames containing umlaut

I got a zip archive containing files some of which with a name containing German umlaute, such as ö. The unzip command on a terminal fails to create such files, complaining about an illegal byte sequence. How can I fix that issue? …

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