diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 240ee14..22b900f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -423,6 +423,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "system-deps",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "percent-encoding"
+version = "2.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9b4f627cb1b25917193a259e49bdad08f671f8d9708acfd5fe0a8c1455d87220"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project-lite"
 version = "0.2.16"
@@ -497,6 +503,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "objc2-app-kit",
  "objc2-core-foundation",
  "objc2-foundation",
+ "percent-encoding",
  "pollster",
  "raw-window-handle",
  "wasm-bindgen",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7533900..898d4f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ windows-sys = { version = "0.61", features = [
 ] }
 
 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "dragonfly", target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "openbsd"))'.dependencies]
+percent-encoding = "2"
 libc = "0.2"
 # XDG Desktop Portal
 pollster = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/backend/xdg_desktop_portal/portal/mod.rs b/src/backend/xdg_desktop_portal/portal/mod.rs
index 42993fe..a2a0bf1 100644
--- a/src/backend/xdg_desktop_portal/portal/mod.rs
+++ b/src/backend/xdg_desktop_portal/portal/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use std::{
-    ffi::{CStr, CString},
+    ffi::{CStr, CString, OsStr},
+    os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt,
     path::PathBuf,
 };
 
@@ -15,11 +16,13 @@ pub use file_dialog::{FileFilter, FilePath, HandleToken, OpenFileOptions, SaveFi
 pub fn uris_to_paths(uris: Vec<CString>) -> Vec<PathBuf> {
     uris.into_iter()
         .filter_map(|uri| {
-            uri.into_string()
-                .inspect_err(|err| log::error!("Ignoring uri: {err:?}"))
-                .ok()
+            let bytes: Vec<u8> = percent_encoding::percent_decode(uri.as_bytes()).collect();
+            let Some(path) = bytes.strip_prefix(b"file://") else {
+                log::error!("Ignoring uri: {bytes:?} lacks `file://`");
+                return None;
+            };
+            Some(PathBuf::from(OsStr::from_bytes(path)))
         })
-        .filter_map(|uri| uri.strip_prefix("file://").map(PathBuf::from))
         .collect()
 }