Character sets in Konsole

[James Richard Tyrer]

Hans-Michael Stahl wrote:
> Christian Mueller wrote the following on 10.02.2005 22:28:
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> How come that LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 works at all? If I do a "locale -a" 
> I only see (for Germany)
> 
> de_DE
> de_DE at euro
> de_DE.utf8
> 
> Can I find a description somewhere about the (changed) character set 
> handling in kde/konsole?
> 
> And also, if I do export LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1" somewhere in my 
> .profile I never will see error messages in the local language, they 
> always appear in English.
> 
> And if I open a second shell in the same konsole for another user who 
> did not set LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1" in his profile I get the utf-8 
> message, e.g. like:
> 
> locale: Das Verzeichnis »/usr/share/i18n/charmaps« der 
> Zeichensatz-Definitionen kann nicht gelesen werden: Datei oder 
> Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> 
> It seems that character set handling in konsole is not implemented 
> correctly.

If this works in Xterm and not in Konsole, it should be obvious that 
your Xterm is somehow set for ISO-8859-1 encoding.  I would not say that 
character encoding is not implemented correctly, I would say that 
because KDE/Qt is supposed to support UniCode, that character encoding 
is not directly implemented in Konsole.  It probably should be -- you 
should be able to choose: View -> Set Encoding like you can in Kate. 
You can add a WishList item at:

	http://bugs.kde.org/

So, what you can do is add an option to open a Konsole with ISO-8859-1 
encoding.  You can do this with a short script:

	#! /bin/bash
	LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
	export LANG
	exec konsole --caption "ISO-8859-1"

-- 
JRT
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