Bug 74691

Summary:	Text encoding and codepage selection
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Anton Ch. <antonch>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Molkentin <molkentin>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	shafff
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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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