It was really annoying to find out that ML9.1:KDE3.1:Kwrite has as
default unicode encoding (utf8) whereas in ML8.2 Kwrite saved files in
iso8859-15 encoding.
I had a iso8859-15 encoded file that I write in with Kwrite
in ML9.1 and in ML8.2. The normal English characters are represented
the same in iso8859-15 and in utf8, but my "European" characters
like "é,è,ï,ë,ç" all became crippled by the utf8 encoding of
Kwrite in ML9.1. Took me a while to correct that problem as the
file is rather big.
I read somewhere that KDE3.1 now uses unicode encoding. That's good
info, but I'd like to learn about this kind of changes at the
time of installing Mandrake 9.1.
So please put a big warning sticker at Install time to warn
(non-English) people that certain word processors now use
unicode encoding without being clear about it.
The only wordprocessor that works correctly is KWord that asks
when you open a plain text file what kind of encoding it has.
You can view iso8859-15 text files correctly by opening them
in Kwrite and changing the display encoding with
View:Set Encoding:iso8859-15
Also Kwrite has some annoying bugs:
When you open a text file, by clicking in Konqueror it is
opened in utf8 encoding and when you save it with the "Save" command
it is saved in utf8 encoding.
But if you use the "Save as" command, the saving defaults to
koi8-r encoding (Russian) as it is the first entry in the character
encoding listing in the "Save as" dialog. So remember to change this to
utf8.
Also when you have a text file opened by Kwrite and you want to
open another iso8859-15 text file, using File:Open and selecting
the iso8859-15 encoding in the "Open File" dialog, it is displayed in
utf8 encoding. Only when you open a blank KWrite window from the menu
you can use the "Open File" dialog and select the iso8859-15 encoding
and it is correctly shown in iso8859-15. Otherwise you have to use
View:Set Encoding:iso8859-15.
vatbier
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