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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] How to change font encoding?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-11-27 12:17:50
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On Wednesday 27 November 2002 07:11, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Chris Carlen wrote:
> >  > James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >  >> Chris Carlen wrote:
> >  >>> We set the language to Thai, and that makes everything Thai.
> >  >>
> >  >> That is what I thought would happen.  So, that *IS* how you change
> >  >> the default font encoding.
> >  >
> >  > But guess what:  If I set the language to Thai, all the KDE menus and
> >  >  text appear in Thai, BUT the filenames that we created in Thai show
> >  > up as ???????????????
> >  >
> >  > So that means it isn't setting the default encoding.
> >
> > No, it would show up as Roman character gibberish like it does in the
> > browser when you chose the wrong encoding.
> >
> >  > I guess I wasn't clear enough.  When I said "that makes everything
> >  > Thai" I meant the KDE text, not the stuff we type.  What we type is
> >  > controlled by the keyboard setting.  At this point I am having no
> >  > problem *typing* Thai.  But if I create a Thai filename, I can type
> >  > Thai in the dialog, but when I hit enter Konqueror shows it as
> >  > ?????????.  Similarly for text created in kwrite.  I can write in
> >  > Thai, but when I read it back after saving, it is
> >  > ???????????????????.
> >
> > I think that this is a BUG, but have no idea for a work around.
>
> Yes, this is a BUG.

No, it is not a bug but an encoding problem.

(It is like if you would ask for example a person only 
understanding English to write down a text in Thai.)

Have a nice day/evening/night!

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