Andrew Mason wrote: > 1) can i get konsole to set the session encoding to be that of the > server/machine that i am connecting to ? Do you use ssh? If you know for which machines you need to use the other encoding, you could do something like this: alias console_utf8='printf "\\033%%G"' alias console_8bit='printf "\\033%%@"' # see "man console_codes" (works also in the KDE konsole) # for some hosts, switch to 8 bit console ssh () { case $1 in *hostname|*other_hostname) console_8bit command ssh "$@" console_utf8 ;; *) command ssh "$@";; esac } > 2) is it possible to work out the encoding of a file ? Not for all encodings, but for utf-8 vs. "that 8 bit encoding that we use here normally" it shouldn't be a problem with iconv: iconv -f utf8 -t WINDOWS-1252 "$1" >/dev/null || echo "not an UTF-8 file that can be converted to CP1252" ... where "$1" should be your filename. > 3) if so it possible to get kate to open the file as the encoding that > it is currently? I don't know, sorry. Regards... Michael ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.