James Richard Tyrer schrieb:
> KDE wrote:
>
>>Hello there,
>>
>>I am currently changing from iso latin 1 encoding to utf8 and dicovered
>>some problems. No KDE application I found so far is able to
>>automatically select the right encoding of a file (content or filename
>>itself) or directory. In Kate/kwrite I can change the encoding by hand.
>>I kedit I have not found any encoding selection.
>>
>>Can I (if yes how) set the kde programs to autodetect the encoding (like
>>vim and emacs) at least for the content (I usually do not use umlauts in
>>flienames)?
>
>
> You can't auto detect an UTF-8 file if it only contains Latin 1 glyphs
> because the first page of Unicode is Latin 1.
Hm, emacs and vi have some intelligence about detecting the encoding of
the file. Thats why I asked. Would be nice if kde get it too.
>
> IIUC, KDE will use your system settings for UTF-8 (at least it works on
> my system). You need to have the system set:
This works very well. But the problem are the old files from the last
then or more years. They are coded in iso8859-15 style. Those files
looks very ugly in an editor set to utf8.
>
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> substituting your language code for mine (en_US). If your system
> supports "profile.d" scripts, just add this script:
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=$LANG
> LC_ALL=$LANG
>
> export LC_ALL LANGUAGE LANG
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
>
> Otherwise, add the same stuff in "/etc/profile", and restart your X session.
>
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