Hallo.
I have a Problem with the Character encoding in KDE3.5. I am from
germany
and we have some nice Letters like ä,ö,ü ... When i go to tty1 with "ctrl+alt+1" and "mkdir testäordner" jump
back
into KDE an look in my home Directory, the new Directory is written
like this:
"testäordner". I hope someone can help me.
Jochen Vortkamp
P.S In the console under tty1 the Directory in written right
"testäordner"
I'm also from Germany and once I had the same problem. I think this has something to do with your locale settings. Run locale in your tty1 and do the same in a console in KDE. Then compare the
results
and you should see a difference I think. For example, "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" in
tty1
and "LANG=de_DE.ISO-****" in KDE.
Stefan
you are right. In tty1 it is "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" and in the KDE console i
got this:
jochen@jochen-laptop:~$ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL=
how to fix it in KDE?
Jochen Vortkamp
That's interesting. I would have expected the other way around.
Either your LANG variable is not set globally and KDE does not know it or KDE resets the variable.
To prevent the first situation I always set the LANG variable in /etc/environment like this: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
If the problem still remains I'm not sure what to do. I know that you can set KDE's default language via kcontrol under "Regionaleinstellungen & ..."->"Land, Region & Sprache". But I'm unsure if this option also affects "LANG".
Good luck!
Stefan Endrullis
The LANG variable is de_DE.UTF8 Under kcontrol there ist also ony german language selected.