Re: How to change font encoding?

Chris Carlen wrote:
> Jim Philips wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
> But that setting isn't available when using Konqueror as a file manager, 
> at least not in 3.0.3.
>
> My wife has some files named in Thai.  Right now she can't display the 
> names properly.

I don't think that you can use 16 bit encoding for file names so you can 
only have one encoding available at a time.
> I can never understand it why a new version of a piece of software omits 
> something that was there before.
>
> Just to keep things in focus, the main point of all of this is that in 
> the Select Font dialog of KDE 2 there was an option to set the encoding 
> for the KDE fonts, including the general one.  This setting has been 
> removed in KDE 3.

They made it automatic, I think that this is supposed to be a feature.
> Is there another way to do it
>
> I will check out the effects of the locale settings later, but that 
> still doesn't answer the fundamental question.
It isn't the locale setting.  You can set the Country and the Language 
without changing the Country, but you need to install the language i18n 
package to be able to do this.  That is, choosing a Country will select 
the language for the Country, but only if you have that language 
installed.  But, you can also select the language (if installed) without 
changing the country setting.

--
JRT

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