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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    RE: character (font?) problems
From:       Tinkl_Lukás <Lukas.Tinkl () merlin ! cz>
Date:       2001-01-30 14:49:07
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> Marko Rosic wrote:
> > 
> > Today Gorkem Cetin wrote:
> > 
> > | Somebody addressed this for latin2, but let me repeat 
> that same problem
> > | occurs within latin5 (aka iso-8859-): Turkish specific 
> characters do not
> > | show up correctly (they're signed with a question mark) 
> in KDE 2.1 beta2.
> > 
> > To cut the long story... two variables speared me from that trouble,
> > exeption is desktop where characters on Trash (Smece) are 
> not displayed
> > corectly.
> > 
> > LANG=sr_YU.iso8859-2
> > LC_CTYPE=sr_YU
> > 
> > You could try to set these to fit your lang.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I just checked and it works. With CVS (and 2.1beta2) don't 
> set LANG or LC_TYPE
> to anything unless you want your konsole applications to be 
> translated too. KDE
> uses the settings from the control centre only. If I set my 
> country and language
> to serbia ? appear _unless_ I change my charset to iso8859-2. 

Well and that's the problem Stephan: if you don't set these envvars KDE 
will probably work OK, but other apps will OTOH stop working correctly! 
However it may sound silly, you won't be for example able to _type_ any 
accented character in non-KDE applications (GNOME for one). 
The real problem in this approach is that you *must* set these envvars 
prior to starting XFree86 -- sad but true -- otherwise you won't be able to 
type anything...

I see here a big controversion between how KDE and "others" handle 
i18n input... 
From what I understand so far - setting these envvars *and* setting 
i18n options in the KDE Control Center are mutually exclusive. 
Hmmm, it works for me this way... 
(i.e. I _do_ have LC_ALL set and I _do_ have the correct settings in the
Control 
Center). 
Has something substantial changed recently? 
(e.g. in the last 3 weeks, I'm using about that old CVS at home)

Regards,

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