From kde-devel  Sun Oct 24 14:42:18 2004
From: Richard =?utf-8?q?L=C3=A4rk=C3=A4ng?= <nouseforaname () home ! se>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:42:18 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: character encoding question
Message-Id: <200410241642.18284.nouseforaname () home ! se>
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On Sunday 24 October 2004 16.40, Richard Lärkäng wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 16.22, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 October 2004 21:48, Jason Harris wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need to add three Swedish cities to KStars (see:
> > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83125).
> > >
> > > However, two of the city names contain non-ascii characters, and when I
> > > paste their names into the Cities.dat file, they are not being encoded
> > > properly.  What I mean is, other non-ascii characters in the file
> > > appear as one or more "garbage" characters, but are rendered correctly
> > > in KStars. When I add these new cities, the non-ascii characters are
> > > rendered correctly in the Cities.dat file, but are not rendered at all
> > > in KStars.  I hope that makes sense.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I have no idea how to encode these non-ascii characters
> > > correctly in the Cities.dat file.  Can anyone give me a clue?
> >
> > Set your editor to utf-8.
>
> And you should also apply this patch I think, otherwise it will be loaded
> as latin1.

Ooops, I need to update before I check things like this, seems like you 
already did that...

Richard
 
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