Hi. Prodded along by the discussion on UTF-8 elsewhere on this list I
decided to try changing my locale (in Linux) to something UTF-8 based.
Upon doing so, I have noticed some strange problems with KDE's behavior.
First let me say that as far as I know, UTF-8 is working correctly. I put:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
in my /etc/env.d/ directory and updated /etc/profile.env then logged out
and back in. echo $LANG in bash shows the correct setting, and bash can
correctly read filenames with accented characters and even Japanese kanji.
That's not the problem though.
Just about everything KDE-based seems to start slower, even when only
displaying "standard" English characters.
KSensors is the worst example (when I click the system tray icon to draw my
sensor panel, it is a white window for about half a second before anything
useful is drawn), but it's not KDE proper so I'll move on to other
examples, such as KWrite. When I start KWrite, at first only the window
title bar and window outline is drawn, with a gray area where the menu and
toolbars go and the text input area is empty. Then after about half a
second, everything is finished being drawn as usual. If I open two files
(first to populate the existing window, second to open a new one) the
second window is as quick to draw as always, so it's just program init.
And all this on an Athlon XP 2500+, I'd hate to see the lag on my other,
slower boxes.
The problem is this doesn't happen when I don't have $LANG set.
Every real KDE app seems to behave this way. The first time Kopete is
drawn, same deal. Every other time I hide to system tray and restore it,
it's snappy. I used lsof to see what resources were in use and found that
every app is loading /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive while when I don't
have $LANG set only some apps load that. I don't know if this is expected
or not.
My problem may seem trivial but it's a distraction and a certain
performance degradation. Please help.
P.S. What is ~/.kde/share/locale/ for? I have it but it is empty.
TIA,
Brian
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