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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: unicode file names and konqueror
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-05-31 1:20:03
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On Thursday May 30, 2002 03:51, Pupeno wrote:
> On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:55, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Wednesday May 29, 2002 10:55, Pupeno wrote:
> > > Does konqueror name the files using unicode chars ? if not, do you
> > > know how can I name files using unicode ?
> >
> > export KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES="1" into your KDE environment on startup,
> > and KDE will use UTF8 unicode instead of the local encoding for
> > filenames.
> >
> > Yes, it's all or nothing.  To have kio try to guess when to use
> > local8Bit and when to use utf8 would be a disaster waiting to happen.
>
> Ok, I chose utf8, is there anything that can go wrong if I start to use
> unicode ?

Well, any files you already have will need to be converted from your old 
local8bit to unicode.

http://www.freekde.org/neil/filenameconvert.cpp

There's what I used to convert my files. Well, the few files I had that had 
non-ASCII names and thus needed conversion. I can't promise it works for 
anyone else. :-)

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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