Christian Mueller wrote the following on 10.02.2005 22:28:
It seems to me that the application produces iso-8859-1 characters that get (wrongly) reinterpreted as UTF-8 (see how the character following each umlaut is gobbled).
That's a valid explanation.
And the app does not seem to honour the LANG variable since the above did not help.
The app is monolingual. But the same also happens when I simply display a file (using cat, e.g.) containing iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-2 characters. And it also happens with the error messages (i program with all kinds of european languages), they all are display with an incorrect character representation. I used to set LANG=de_DE or cs_CZ or no_NO.
You could try the following (as a test): - Start a konsole - Type: export LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
- Start a second konsole from that environment
- In that second one, start your app and see what you get
That helped. It displays the special characters correctly in the forked konsole. But I do no quite understand what is going on here :-(
Am I right the konsole starts up UTF-8 mode by default? And why does it so, invalidating the display of all files I have in 8-bit character sets? To prevent that, should I somewhere set 'export LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"' somewhere in my .profile?
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