My system runs in the Latin9 locale (ISO 8859-15) and I often work with UTF-8-encoded files I open using kate -e utf-8 file1.txt file2.html file3.php Up to KDE 4.10 this did work but in KDE 4.11, only the first file is opened with UTF-8-encoding. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a Konsole and invoke Kate on several files using the -e argument to specifiy an encoding different from your system's default encoding: kate -e utf-8 file1.txt file2.html file3.php Actual Results: Only the first file is opened using the specified encoding. Expected Results: All files are opened using the specified encoding.
I tried that with Kate master (KF5 based). IMHO this is fixed there.