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

[Otto Pattara]

On Sunday 19 December 2004 19:17, David Faure wrote:
> 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.

Thank you very much. It works (creating a utf-8 filename)!

"export LANG=th_TH.tis-620; kdeinit" also works for the 8bit tis-620 
filename case.

So it all depends on the locale. It would be nice to let it depend on 
something else (setting in menu) so we don't need to change the LANG 
and re-kde-init everytime we want to browse files with 
another-encoding filenames.

Anyway, thanks everybody...

Cheers,
Otto