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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: character (font?) problems
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-30 15:32:05
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Tinkl Lukás wrote:
> 
> > 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)
> 
Hmm, KDE doesn't care about LC_ALL since about the time qt 2.2.3 was released.

Greetings, Stephan

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