Version: (using KDE 4.1.1) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages I have a text file created on MS Windows with Hebrew text. In KDE 3.x when I open the file in Kate I get Gibberish as Kate assumes UTF-8 text. However, I can manually change the encoding to cp1255 and then Kate displays the file just fine. In KDE 4.1 when I open the file in Kate I get the same Gibberish, however, selecting cp1255 does not change the way that Kate displays the file. I still get Gibberish. Note that services such as http://gibberish.co.il cannot translate the Gibberish that Kate produces as all the characters are identical. So this could even be considered a dataloss situation.
Created attachment 28459 [details] Hebrew (cp1255) file In KDE 3.x I can manually change Kate's encoding to cp1255 to read this file. This cannot be done in KDE 4.x.
The problem still exists in Trunk.
It seems that this problem was not present in KDE 4.1, it is new in KDE 4.2.
Works for me -- I don't see the bug in KDE built from trunk today. Note: I recently ran into several weird problems with trunk. One of them prompted me to reconfigure Qt, which caused KDE to be rebuilt cleanly; all the others (which I have good reason to believe were unrelated to the configuration change) mysteriously went away. Try cleaning and rebuilding.
Seems to be fixed in latest Trunk. Thanks.