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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: chars problems in kde (UTF8) -
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-07-26 19:33:22
Message-ID: 200407262133.22465.gassauer () kde ! org
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On Friday 23 July 2004 11:05, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Friday 23 July 2004 01:07, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > >Did you set Konqueror /settings / fonts / default encoding to "use
> > > language encoding" ?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > >may be there is another default somewhere (locale here is "english"
> > > and country "Austria")
> >
> > Here it's "Portuguese", "Brazil".
> >
> > But I repeat what I said in the bug report: Konqueror's encoding
> > detection is not perfect, but it works fine most of the time. But all
> > of that is because the webmaster did a lousy job on his site -- the
> > encoding *guessing* is just a workaround because there are too many
> > broken sites.
> >
> > HTTP/1.0 did not say "charset" was mandatory, allowing the browser to
> > choose anything, most commonly the locale encoding. HTTP/1.1 says it's
> > mandatory (IIRC). The MIME RFCs also state that for any charset
> > different than US-ASCII (that is, 7bit), the charset must be
> > specified(*).
>
> I think the problem is that the default encoding is utf8 in recent Linux
> distributions so "use language encoding" uses utf8 while it previously used
> latin1 or whatever was fashionable for the region. utf8 is not such a good
> default, because most web pages that don't specify an encoding are using
> something like latin1 and not utf8.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
I still think it's a new quirks in KDE 3.3. 
IMHO 3.2.3 kmail and konqueror work fine with the same settings.
-- 
ferdinand
 
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