Bug 74691 - Text encoding and codepage selection
Summary: Text encoding and codepage selection
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kcontrol
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Molkentin
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Reported: 2004-02-09 09:54 UTC by Anton Ch.
Modified: 2008-09-07 15:44 UTC (History)
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Description Anton Ch. 2004-02-09 09:55:00 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
OS:          Linux

I think it would be really nice if there would be an option in control panel to select defualt encoding used. For example when adding Russian keyboard I would like to be able to select which default encoding (there is 2 koi8-r and CP1251) that I wish to use in text files/kmail/web browser/etc. The only solution right now is to edit a config file by hand enter LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 or .koi8-r. Otherwise text files encoded with cp1251 are unreadable. Same should be done with mounting drives. Right now it requires to manually by hand add CODEPAGE option to fstab.
Comment 1 Nick Shaforostoff 2008-09-07 15:44:07 UTC 
this is the wrong way todo. I added automatic encoding detection to konqueror and kwrite (although it is only tailored for russian), and have just fixed the second use case: see bug 161673