UTF-8 locale (was: Strange bug in QSvgRenderer and KDE)

[Thiago Macieira]

Chusslove Illich wrote:
>> So any idea how to check user has not a LC_ALL set and warn him?
>
>I'd say not really needed. The user is in a lot of other similar trouble
>anyway if his locale is not UTF-8 ready, so KDE needs not lul him. The
>sooner the user feels the problem, the better. Or, to put it more
> friendly, distributions should make sure UTF-8 locale is used by
> default.

KDE 4 will not work properly in non UTF-8 locales.

Therefore, all users need to switch to UTF-8.

Reason (one of many, but this one I can speak authoritatively for): URLs 
are always encoded in UTF-8. Which means that they are encoded in UTF-8 
for local files too.

See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55177 for more information (the 
bug is not closed due to a regression in QUrl in 4.3).
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