[konsole] [Bug 389940] Wrong window and tab titles in a non-UTF8 locale

[Lothar]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389940

--- Comment #5 from Lothar <lopa at arcor.de> ---
(In reply to Justin Zobel from comment #3)
> Honestly I'm sure if patches are provided to ensure correct functionality
> they'd be welcomed. KDE is pretty open to patches. I've already sent a super
> minor one to correct some XML formatting and was kindly thanked.

Unfortunately, the correct handling of the character encoding according to the
setting of the env variables LANG or LC_CTYPE is not considered as the correct
functionality any more by a lot of programmers. Quite the reverse, the support
of anything but UTF8 is actively removed. For example the ICU library.
Originally, the system encoding was hard coded to UTF8 only for Android and
Apple. But since several months, this is also done for Linux. LANG and LC_CTYPE
is ignored.

A lot of KDE packages and the ICU library must be patched to restore the
correct handling of the character encodings. But I gave it up, because this bug
now is declared as a feature by most package maintainers.

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