Re: How to change font encoding?

Chris Carlen wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
>> Chris Carlen wrote:
>>
>>> We set the language to Thai, and that makes everything Thai.
>>
>>
>>
>> That is what I thought would happen.  So, that *IS* how you change
>> the default font encoding.
>
>
> But guess what:  If I set the language to Thai, all the KDE menus and
>  text appear in Thai, BUT the filenames that we created in Thai show
> up as ???????????????
>
> So that means it isn't setting the default encoding.

No, it would show up as Roman character gibberish like it does in the
browser when you chose the wrong encoding.

> I guess I wasn't clear enough.  When I said "that makes everything
> Thai" I meant the KDE text, not the stuff we type.  What we type is
> controlled by the keyboard setting.  At this point I am having no
> problem *typing* Thai.  But if I create a Thai filename, I can type
> Thai in the dialog, but when I hit enter Konqueror shows it as
> ?????????.  Similarly for text created in kwrite.  I can write in
> Thai, but when I read it back after saving, it is
> ???????????????????.

I think that this is a BUG, but have no idea for a work around.

--
JRT

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