Bug 140550 - regional settings: please add the default encoding for KDE apps
Summary: regional settings: please add the default encoding for KDE apps
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_language (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Layt
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Reported: 2007-01-24 14:36 UTC by Maciej Pilichowski
Modified: 2018-05-17 10:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-01-24 14:36:20 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Purpose: the default encoding in open-file dialog. Also it could serves as default encoding when creating new project/document/whatever.

Problem: there are a lot apps which process text files -- so with this additional settings I could forget about setting encoding each time I open a file. Or use another app.
Comment 1 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-01-24 14:38:14 UTC
Hmm, why did it go to www.kde.org? Could someone please reassign it to Kcontrol, thanks in advance and sorry for the trouble.
Comment 2 Philip Rodrigues 2007-01-25 00:47:51 UTC
As I understand it, KDE uses the system encoding as specified by the LANG environment variable, so I guess this is not needed
Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-01-25 08:45:20 UTC
Philip, not true already.

If KDE looks at LANG what is the purpose of defining language in KDE? But it is there and obviously for developers it has some purpose -- it is possible to set LANG to pl and language in KDE for Czech.

Another thing -- the LANG env.var. came from old times and I set it mostly for all non-KDE apps so they could behave nicely -- Midnight Commander. 

Now I can gently differentiate LANG vs. KDE-language but the encoding is missing in KDE (it is set in LANG though). In other words I wish for full symmetry. 
Comment 4 John Layt 2010-08-07 21:23:48 UTC
Is this still an issue in KDE4?
Comment 5 Maciej Pilichowski 2010-08-08 09:05:30 UTC
I don't know, I use KDE3.
Comment 6 Eike Hein 2018-05-17 10:41:24 UTC
Very old ticket, all the code has changed. Reopen if still an issue.