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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Removing of EncodingMib from klocale
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-09 22:56:41
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On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:19 am, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Freitag, 8. März 2002 22:54, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Friday 08 March 2002 08:07 am, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> > > > Hmm, I don't like KDE relying on the C locale.
> > >
> > > C locales affect filename encoding in most Unix apps, and Qt apps too.
> > > Since KDE has abandoned legacy encodings in favor of UTF-8 everywhere
> > > except for filenames, I think we should have the encoding for things
> > > like filenames (and occasional data exchange with non-KDE apps) based
> > > on the C locale's encoding. And since there's no way to adjust
> > > EncodingMib from the GUI anyway (the encoding selector was removed from
> > > the 'Country & Language' control center module), we should at least let
> > > users select it via standard C locale means.
> >
> > What came of the idea to make it possible to use UTF8 for filenames?
> >
> > I have not heared anything back on that.
>
> Well, if you set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 you get exactly that

Does that affect QFile::encodeName() only or does it affect locale8bit() as 
well?

Cheers,
Waldo
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