Character encodings (UTF16)

[Andras Mantia]

Hi,

 I'm sending this to core-devel, as it affect many applications 
including Kate (and everything using Katepart), KEdit, Konqueror and 
maybe others. There seem to be a problem with dealing with certain 
UTF16 encoded files. The question is whether the problem is in KDE/Qt 
or the files in question are broken. Attached is a file that renders 
fine in Firefox and Opera, the reporter says that it was saved in NVU, 
while it shows up as garbage in Konqueror, Kate if opened as UTF16.  In 
KEdit it's the same as in Kate when opened in UTF8 mode ("space" after 
every character), while Konqueror in UTF8 mode shows the source.
 Does anybody know if this is a real problem (wrong handling of such 
files) or it's a problem in the file itself? Certainly for the user it 
looks like a real problem, especially that there are applications out 
there that can work with the file. If I run a 
"recode utf16LE..utf16 filename" on it, the resulted file can be opened 
in every KDE application.

Andras

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