Dear Christian,
On Mo, 24 Dez 2007, Christian Dalbjerg wrote:
> Thanks alot for all your work, its appreciated! When entering locale
> in ubuntu 7.10 I get LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, which causes me no problems
> since kile is set to use encoding KDEDefault, which im guessing is
> refering to what YYYY=DK.UTF-8 is.
more or less, YYYY=UTF-8, locales consist of
aa[_BB].CCCC
aa ... 2 letter language code
BB ... 2(?) letter country code
the _BB is not necessary
CCCC ... character encoding
So that means that your are working with English language in Danemark,
with UTF-8 encoding.
> But when entering locale in ubuntu 8.04 I get LANG=C. Is it then
Ups, well, then everything is though to be in ASCII.
> correctly understood that the problem arrises because kile is trying
> to open the files as if they were encoded in whatever LANG=C means?
ASCII
> And what to do about it? Im not sure, but I think the the bug report
> should be filed against ubuntu in general?
See below ...
> I mean, it would be nice if kile could autodetect the encoding, but it
> isn't really a bug in kile, more like a feature request.
Right, feature request.
> I have installed ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 the exact same way so I don't
> understand why the LANG settings are different. It would be nice if
> this was changed back before final release.
Sorry I cannot help you here since I am Debian maintainer and only
helping out on the Ubuntu side a bit. I don't know nothing about the
internals of the installer and why the LOCALE settings weren't done
right. But it is definitely worth a bug report.
> In the meanwhile, which one of the two options do you recommend?
> The first one seems the easiest, is there any reason to prefer the second?
I am not sure about the way to fix it on Ubuntu, but I would suggest:
sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
then select the en_DK.UTF-8 and maybe some others you might have use
for. And AFAIR at the end it should ask you about the default locale for
your system. After that restarting the computer (or restarting the
display manager gdm/kdm/whatever-dm) should give you the right
setting. If not, there might be something saved in your local
configuration files in ~/.?something.
But that is not for me to debug.
I hope that helped a bit
Best wishes
Norbert
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