Re: How to change font encoding?

On Saturday 23 November 2002 09:36 pm, Chris Carlen wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Chris Carlen wrote:
> >> Hi:
> >>
> >> My wife has Thai fonts installed on her machine, and she wants to
> >> display Thai characters in Konqueror.  In Suse 7.3, we set the fonts
> >> in KDE to be the Thai fonts (truetype Thai fonts borrowed from Win
> >> 98). The font configuration module in the KDE 2.2 control panel
> >> allowed one to set the font encoding to be used.
> >>
> >> Now in suse 8.1, KDE 3.0.3 doesn't have an encoding selection
> >> available in the font module.
> >>
> >> How can we tell KDE to use the iso8859-11 encoding for our Thai fonts?
> >> right now the files she had named with Thai in 7.3 show up as extended
> >> Latin characters :-(
> >
> > Did you install the i18n module for Thai?
> >
> > Did you add and select Thai in the Control Center?
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Unfortunately, that's not really the point.  In KDE 2.x there was a
> selection available in the Select Font dialog in
> Look&Feel|Fonts|Choose... dialog.
>
> This selection seems to be not present in KDE 3 .
>
> The selection in KDE 2 allowed one to set the font encoding to be used.
>   This had nothing to do with locale settings.  I don't really want to
> set the locale to Thailand, because we are in USA!  Perhaps though I can
> try that and see if it produces the desired results.
>
> But the point, again, is that there was a font encoding selection field
> in the Select Font dialog in KDE 2, and that selection field is missing
> in KDE 3.
>
> I am hoping to discover why this has disappeared, and how to access
> equivalent functionality in KDE 3.

If you are looking to set the encoding in Konqueror, then all you need to do 
is go to View-->Set Encoding and the page will render with the encoding you 
select. From what I can see, any KDE app will allow you to set the encoding 
this way. I don't think there is a global setting, nor should there be. With 
Thai, as with Russian (which I use), there is more than one encoding and you 
don't always know in advance which one you will get. I'm using KDE 3.1 RC2.
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