File Manager -> Menu -> View -> Set Encoding

[David Faure]

On Sunday 19 December 2004 07:22, Otto Pattara wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2004 19:17, you wrote:
> > Pattara Kiatisevi wrote:
> > >> > Ouch - that's much more complex than in KHTML. It touches all
> > >> > file-management operations - i.e. the ioslaves etc.
> > >> > KDE - and in fact Qt - don't support using multiple encodings
> > >> > for filenames.
> > >
> > >I see. Anyway do you foresee any chance of supporting this in the
> > >future? Or otherwise how about setting the default encoding to
> > > utf-8 (I guess the current one is iso8859-1)?
> >
> > No, you must change your locale. Using an UTF-8 locale will get
> > your filenames in UTF-8 as well.
> 
> I tried:
> -open a konsole
> -export LANG=th_TH.UTF-8
After that, you need to type "kdeinit" in that konsole.
The directory listing in Konqueror is done by the kio_file process, started by kdeinit,
and that one won't have the modified environment if you don't restart it.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).