On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Pavel Troller wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > Ok, I guess this i a problem of LANG envvar not being set to your locale
> > (cz_CZ ?). I wrote the "guessing the default" algorithm and it uses
> > QTextCodec::codecForLocale() function (which uses heuristic around LANG
> > variable). If you don't have LANG set it returns iso-8859-1.
> Hi!
> Uhh-ohh, so there may be the problem... I'm not setting LANG because I don't
> want czech output from various system commands etc... I thing LANGUAGE setting
> should be independent of the LOCALE setting - I live in Czech, write Czech
> letters etc. so I'm using LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ, but I don't want to communicate in Czech
> with my computer, so I don't specify LANG. I'll look at Qt sources and maybe hack
> something there, thanks for pointing me. Just now I can't experiment, I'm out of
> the local console, but I'll check it immediately when I return.

I will change the default guessing algorithm to read charset setting from
kcontrol module, so that would enable us to avoid relying on LANG
variable. I've received many reports from people who don't want to set
LANG on their systems, (actually I agree with them) so I'll change it.

Regards,

Jacek Stolarczyk
-- 
jstolarz@kde.org
Coordinator of Polish translations of KDE

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