Character sets in Konsole

[Hans-Michael Stahl]

Christian Mueller wrote the following on 10.02.2005 22:28:

> It seems to me that the application produces iso-8859-1 characters 
> that get (wrongly) reinterpreted as UTF-8 (see how the character 
> following each umlaut is gobbled).   

That's a valid explanation.

> And the app does not seem to honour the LANG variable since 
> the above did not help.

The app is monolingual. But the same also happens when I simply display 
a file (using cat, e.g.) containing iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-2 characters. 
And it also happens with the error messages (i program with all kinds of 
european languages), they all are display with an incorrect character 
representation. I used to set LANG=de_DE or cs_CZ or no_NO.

> You could try the following (as a test): 
> - Start a konsole 
> - Type: export LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
> - Start a second konsole from that environment
> - In that second one, start your app and see what you get

That helped. It displays the special characters correctly in the forked 
konsole. But I do no quite understand what is going on here :-(

Am I right the konsole starts up UTF-8 mode by default? And why does it 
so, invalidating the display of all files I have in 8-bit character 
sets? To prevent that, should I somewhere set 'export 
LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"' somewhere in my .profile?


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Hans-Michael Stahl
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