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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: charset oddness
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-02-01 20:00:54
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On Friday 01 February 2002 13:50, dep wrote:
> greets.
>
> things have generally gone swimmingly with kde3. a couple of little
> surprises, though, which i suspect are related.
>
> when i open a text file by clicking on it in konqueror, i get a dialog
> asking me to specify the encoding to be used. this, i figured, is an
> innovation. but . . .

That is because KWord has priority over Kate. That is unfortunately the 
default. (I have no idea how to change the default in general.)

However, from the KWord point of view, I have to have a dialogue. It will 
even have more option in future (at least one not to modify the text.)

I would recommend not to use KWord ASCII (or Plain Text) import filter for 
now. It has been unmaintained for long and I have just stripped down a few of 
its features to make it work again. Nevertheless, a few problem still exists.

If you want to change the default of the text file view for you, the user, 
you have to:

- Open Konqueror.
- Click with th right button on a .txt file.
- Choose "Edit File Type".
- In the dialog, click on the "Embedding" tab.
- In the list box of "Service Preference Order", select "Embedded KDE 
Advanced Text Editor".
- Click on the button "Move Up"
- Clisk on "OK"

In the past, it would have been worked now. However, in the KDE version 
that I have, it does not work immediately. Perhpas something must be started 
again (Konqueror or perhaps even KDE.)

>
> i notice now that in kmail, asian characters are displayed correctly.
> this, too, is cool (though they make it no more likely that i'll be
> able to read them <g>).
>
> but when i log out of kde3 and am at the console prompt, i have not
> nice, normal roman characters but a collection of stuff that looks
> like a cross between high ascii and ansi characters.
>
> which suggests that there may be some configuration that i've missed.
> there's a little flag icon docked to kicker with the letters US on
> it, and while i think it would be lovely if this were some sign of
> solidarity or something, my guess is that it's to note the
> personalization option currently running.

I am not sure, but is this not the keyboard mode?

>
> has any default changed in this regard?

Have a nice day/evening/night!

 
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