Version: 4.3 (using KDE 3.3.2 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE ) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-99-athlon On my hard-disk there are more and more utf-8 files, mixed with iso-8859-1 files... Although you can choose a standard-character-set to open-with, it is hard, to choose the character-set manually for files with other character sets. It seems possible to "destroy" files with special chars, if you edit them with the wrong character-set and then then save them. Perhaps it is possible to implement an optional character-set-auto-detection, and for people who do not like auto-detection, the possibility to set hotkeys for their favorite character-sets.
autodetection is in the works, and you can set the encodig from the menu, command line or a document variable.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55355 ***