Bug 189660

Summary: unicode plain text files aren't opened with $editor by default, but ascii ones do
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Marcel B. <tanuva>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, asraniel, cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marcel B. 2009-04-15 00:08:25 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

This applies not only to the plasma desktop but also to dolphin, but I didn't find a more general "application" to assign the report to. Additionally, I noticed this behaviour with windows-1258-encoded files, too.

How to reproduce:
- Create two text files with $texteditor, save one with f.e. ascii encoding and one with unicode/utf-8.
- Try to open them by clicking on them on the desktop or within dolphin. The ascii-encoded one will be handed over to kwrite as expected, the unicode one won't and kde will ask with which program you want to open it.

Expected behaviour:
Both files should be opened with $texteditor by default.
Comment 1 Beat Wolf 2009-04-15 12:59:45 UTC 
isn't this a mimetype bug?
Comment 2 Marcel B. 2009-04-15 13:09:18 UTC 
The "application list" of bugzilla just contains kmail/kdepim-related components when searching for mime, but in general that seems plausible.
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-04-17 17:59:30 UTC 
I guess this should be reassigned to kdelibs. I remember a related bug: in Dolphin the ascii-only files are shown(preview) as text files, but the files that contain non-ascii chars are shown as binary data (their text preview is not generated). This may be related to the fact that the textthumbnail protocol only uses ascii characters (weird and old). I can't find the related bug number.
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2009-05-21 18:19:35 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188355 ***