Bug 125351

Summary:	implement encoding detection for fish
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio-extras	Reporter:	Gilles Schintgen <gschintgen>
Component:	FISH	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, nate, toni.asensi
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gilles Schintgen 2006-04-11 12:54:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Currently kio_fish uses Latin1 as default encoding. Unfortunately this choice is often wrong. (It can be corrected under Tools/Select Remote Charset.)
It would be nice if fish could detect the filesystem encoding of the remote host by inspecting the LANG environment variable.
This would also solve, once and for all, bug #105186.

This wish is a result of the discussion taking place at wish #125212.

Comment 1 bugs-kde 2006-11-10 15:04:52 UTC

A similar problem with WebDAV is described in bug 127251.

Comment 2 Michael Helmling 2006-12-11 20:44:27 UTC

At least the default encoding should not be Latin1 but the one used at the local system, since I suppose most users will use fish LANs or at least similar computers where the encoding schould be the same on every machine. At least, the default should be utf8 to support the spread of unicode. This gave me some headaches trying to synchronize some files between my box and my home server (both fully unicode).

Comment 3 Aldoo 2007-11-10 18:20:08 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Nicolas L. 2008-09-30 17:45:33 UTC

what about this long standing bug ? at least maybe it could be utf-8 by default the time a better solution is found ?