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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: may be OT: character set problem
From:       Thorsten Schnebeck <thorsten.schnebeck () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-07-31 7:34:03
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Am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2003 01:41 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> >Hi!
> >Windows file names with German Umlaute are not displayed correctly in
> >- kmail attachements

Attachements from Win9x or Win2000+? Latter uses UTF8.

> My guess is the sender MUA is broken. KMail has never given me any problems
> with encoding. In fact, I find it to be an example of doing it right. To be
> sure, only by taking a look at the mail headers.

I notices the effect if you watch the mail in kmail rendered by khtml (also 
text-only mails) Umlauts are sometimes square characters. But if I look into 
the raw mail sourcecode (RMB->View mail code (?)) all Umlauts are correct 
displayed. 

> >- konsole (ls)
>
> Not konsole's fault. Your files have the wrong names. Konsole doesn't
> translate anything.

Is
export KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES=1
still a vallid option in KDE-CVS?
What happens using this option?

>
> >- konqueror
>
> Same as above. What's probably happening is that your file names are not
> encoded in the correct locale. They should be encoded in Latin 1 or UTF-8
> (for the German language). They apparently not.
>
> Since you're saying that they are Windows files, make sure you did not
> specify the wrong charset when you mounted the filesystem.
>
> >also files with Umlaute saved with samba (PC850) are not displayed
> > correctly
>
> For proper support with kio_smb, you should be using the libsmb ioslave
> along with Samba 3.0. Samba 2.2.x doesn't support Unicode, so if your setup
> is an UTF-8 locale, it won't work. If it's not, it could be a problem in
> /etc/smb. conf. However, bugs.kde.org has a lot of kio_smb bugs of wrongly
> encoded filenames, so it might be the same situation.

Yep, I noticed this, too!
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=105791904909649&w=2

Bye

  Thorsten

 
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