Hi, in the course of vcard and the encoding issue I ask herewith for help to solve another annoying utf8 encoding issue. Problem: Attached images show that My_Documents when language set to bg gets mangled. Unfortunately looking into this I found out it is mangled in /opt/trinity/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop/My_Documents I tested in fresh install of TDE, but after first logout/login it changed I workaround it by fixing the file and removing the write permissions. I don't know where to look for the system:/ entry. regards

On Tuesday 21 of June 2016 00:24:56 Fat-Zer wrote: As far as I know, this was fixed sometime in year 2011...

Fat-Zer wrote: Haha, thanks yes. This is exactly what I mean. According my experience after correcting it, it looks fine until it gets reloaded. Something I noticed about KSaveFile - it does not set the encoding to the stream. I think the original files should be OK and when they get read for first time it also looks OK, but after this they get mangled. In my case it does not look like latin1 but utf8 mangling. This might be, because you run it via iconv -t cp1252 cat /opt/trinity/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop/Printers | grep '\[b[egn]\]' Name[be]=Друкаркі Name[bg]=Принтери Name[bn]=মদরণ Anyway, thank you for looking into it. As I wrote before the workaround for me was to remove the write permissions on the file after changing it. regards

Fat-Zer wrote: I updated the My_Documents file and saved. It appears correct on the screen, but after some time or login - don't recall exactly it appears mangled on the screen. I check the file and the mangled is there - definitely UTF. I observed the same with the KSaveFile as stated above. The correct one is مستنداتي Name[bg]=Документи Oh, I just see here (from git): tdebase/kdesktop/init/My_Documents [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=folder_wordprocessing Name=My Documents Name[af]=Dokument Gids Name[ar]=مستنداتي Name[be]=ТÑчка Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð´Ð°ÐºÑƒÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ð°Ñž Name[bg]=Ð”Ð¸Ñ€ÐµÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ñ Ð´Ð¾ÐºÑƒÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ð¸ Name[bn]=ডকà§à¦®à§‡à¦¨à§à¦Ÿ ফোলà§à¦¡à¦¾à¦° So it's broken in git - perhaps one could find the original file and it is correct there - what a mess - I always hated this encoding stuff. Each time you have to write some code dealing with text ... it was such a pain ... it will last another 10-20y before its gone. regards --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

Ok, I've found a way to demangle those locales completely. The reason the iconv failed on some chars is that the encoding is mess of cp1252 and latin1 (the first one got non-leter symbols in place of some control sequences)

On Thursday 23 of June 2016 08:27:26 deloptes wrote: I'll do commit early. Fat-Zer, thank you for the patch! Yes, I know about it. A second file with the same problem is in tdeioslave/system/entries/documents.desktop. I'll apply the same patch also to this file.