[opensuse] Foreign characters in Konqueror
Hi all, I have Konqueror installed with openSUSE 10.2 in UK-English language preference as standard. Some files it should display are using the German 'umlaut' characters in their names. How can I setup Konqueror to display these characters in stead of ļ for "ü" (Unicode UTF-8 ?). In Evolution and the Shell Konsole the right characters are used. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:09 +0100, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Hi all,
I have Konqueror installed with openSUSE 10.2 in UK-English language preference as standard. Some files it should display are using the German 'Umlaut' characters in their names.
How can I setup Konqueror to display these characters in stead of ļ for "ü" (Unicode UTF-8 ?). In Evolution and the Shell Konsole the right characters are used.
:-) Al
Has anyone had this problem before? Normally the setups ware OK during the installation and I had not probs afterwords. Has something changed in openSUSE 10,2? Must I set something? This problem is only with Konqueror. Evolution and the terminal Shell (-Konsole) display it correctly. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:09 +0100, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Hi all,
I have Konqueror installed with openSUSE 10.2 in UK-English language preference as standard. Some files it should display are using the German 'Umlaut' characters in their names.
How can I setup Konqueror to display these characters in stead of ļ for "ü" (Unicode UTF-8 ?). In Evolution and the Shell Konsole the right characters are used.
:-) Al
Has anyone had this problem before? Normally the setups ware OK during the installation and I had not probs afterwords.
Has something changed in openSUSE 10,2? Must I set something?
This problem is only with Konqueror. Evolution and the terminal Shell (-Konsole) display it correctly. Just made the test here on a new 10.2 install. Created a file with an umlaut in its name. Displayed it without problem by Konq. $LANG is en_US.UTF-8.
HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:02 +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote:
LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:09 +0100, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Hi all,
I have Konqueror installed with openSUSE 10.2 in UK-English language preference as standard. Some files it should display are using the German 'Umlaut' characters in their names.
How can I setup Konqueror to display these characters in stead of ļ for "ü" (Unicode UTF-8 ?). In Evolution and the Shell Konsole the right characters are used.
:-) Al
Has anyone had this problem before? Normally the setups ware OK during the installation and I had not probs afterwords.
Has something changed in openSUSE 10,2? Must I set something?
This problem is only with Konqueror. Evolution and the terminal Shell (-Konsole) display it correctly. Just made the test here on a new 10.2 install. Created a file with an umlaut in its name. Displayed it without problem by Konq. $LANG is en_US.UTF-8.
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
Strange. I created another file with the filename "Über.txt". That worked. The other files remain with strange characters. Maybe it has something to do with using Hard Drives now mapped by the new openSUSE 10.2 system, which were created by the Novell SUSE 10.1 system. To seperate Data and OS, what I normally do is to save all data on a seperate hard drive, which is mapped to /home/<username>/Data. The standard /home/<username>/Documents directory is removed and a link set to the Documents directory with "ln -s /home/<username>/Data/Documents Documents". I have done it often before, and had no problems yet. If I recall correctly, I mounted the drive during installation when openSUSE 10.2 installed, it came up with a dialogue box saying something to the effect that the user rights of the files are not linked to any user. It asked if it should make the files accessable to the newly createsd user, perhaps because it was now under its home directory. I thought it would only make a: "chown -R <usename>:<usergroup> /home/<username>/Data", so allowed it. Normally I mapped the drives after the installation in fstab or with YaST2. Could this be a source of the problem? :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Maybe it has something to do with using Hard Drives now mapped by the new openSUSE 10.2 system, which were created by the Novell SUSE 10.1 system. To seperate Data and OS, what I normally do is to save all data on a seperate hard drive, which is mapped to /home/<username>/Data. The standard /home/<username>/Documents directory is removed and a link set to the Documents directory with "ln -s /home/<username>/Data/Documents Documents". I have done it often before, and had no problems yet.
If I recall correctly, I mounted the drive during installation when openSUSE 10.2 installed, it came up with a dialogue box saying something to the effect that the user rights of the files are not linked to any user. It asked if it should make the files accessable to the newly createsd user, perhaps because it was now under its home directory. I thought it would only make a: "chown -R <usename>:<usergroup> /home/<username>/Data", so allowed it. Normally I mapped the drives after the installation in fstab or with YaST2.
Could this be a source of the problem? I don't know what what done during this operation, so I can't comment.
Could you please post the fstab entry for that separate harddrive ? TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 17:37 +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote:
LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
To seperate Data and OS, what I normally do is to save all data on a seperate hard drive, which is mapped to /home/<username>/Data. The standard /home/<username>/Documents directory is removed and a link set to the Documents directory with "ln -s /home/<username>/Data/Documents Documents". I have done it often before, and had no problems yet.
I don't know what what done during this operation, so I can't comment.
Could you please post the fstab entry for that separate harddrive ?
TIA
Ph. A.
Hi Philippe, In the mean time I mounted 5 Hard Disks in the same manner.
From fstab: /dev/sdc6 /home/lsr/Data/Data1 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb4 /home/lsr/Data/Data2 reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda4 /home/lsr/Data/Data3 reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sdb3 /home/lsr/Old-OSs/SL10.0 reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda3 /home/lsr/Old-OSs/SL10.1 xfs defaults 1 1
There are French characters inside a text file on /dev/sda4, which does not display the right characters. The German characters are not displayed correctly on the drives /dev/sdc6 and /dev/sda3 on OS level, i.e. file names. On these drives, the German characters in the *.doc files are opened by openOffice are correctly displayed. TIA, :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-27 at 09:25 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 17:37 +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote:
Could you please post the fstab entry for that separate harddrive ?
In the mean time I mounted 5 Hard Disks in the same manner.
From fstab: /dev/sdc6 /home/lsr/Data/Data1 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb4 /home/lsr/Data/Data2 reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda4 /home/lsr/Data/Data3 reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sdb3 /home/lsr/Old-OSs/SL10.0 reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda3 /home/lsr/Old-OSs/SL10.1 xfs defaults 1 1
The charset only applies to vfat partitions, AFAIK. However... if you have created files (the filenames) from apps or terminals using a diferent charset like iso or utf, they will be seen diferent on a diferent terminal or program.
There are French characters inside a text file on /dev/sda4, which does not display the right characters.
That is a different issue. Only the filenames are affected by the filesystem; the contents depends solely on the app used. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGCOfPtTMYHG2NR9URAh12AJ9rahAzwAjqs0xbZXkIey+YRHh/vQCePenk Y4Zoy72c5ztxDBvLw17K9js= =H327 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:45 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The charset only applies to vfat partitions, AFAIK. However... if you have created files (the filenames) from apps or terminals using a diferent charset like iso or utf, they will be seen diferent on a diferent terminal or program.
Hi Carlos, I built another system with openSUSE 10.2, and as before did no special charset selections. The same problem occurs on other system that is completely different. I have been mapping my Data drives like this the last 2 years since SuSE 9.1, all without this sort of result. I always used the standard setups from SuSE/SUSE/openSUSE where charsets are concerned. These systems are installed with English (US) as Primary language, Eng (UK) and German as Secondary Languages. Region and Time Zone are Europe and Germany resp. I have done dozens of systems like this, only have this problem with Konqueror as Data Manager in Super User Mode, since installing openSUSE 10.2 This problem only occurs in Konqueror. Stranger is that if I open Konqueror from the openSUSE main panel with the icon "Home (Personal Files)", the file names are displayed correctly. When I open Konqueror as "File Manager - Super User Mode", _then_ the characters are displayed incorrectly. Can it be root's environment settings?? To check, I went to "Shell - Konsole" to do a "su -", the file names are shown correctly here. So the root environment settings seem OK. Any other thoughts are welcome ... TIA :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-27 at 22:48 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
I built another system with openSUSE 10.2, and as before did no special charset selections. The same problem occurs on other system that is completely different. I have been mapping my Data drives like this the last 2 years since SuSE 9.1, all without this sort of result. I always used the standard setups from SuSE/SUSE/openSUSE where charsets are concerned.
These systems are installed with English (US) as Primary language, Eng (UK) and German as Secondary Languages. Region and Time Zone are Europe and Germany resp. I have done dozens of systems like this, only have this problem with Konqueror as Data Manager in Super User Mode,
Ah!
since installing openSUSE 10.2
This problem only occurs in Konqueror. Stranger is that if I open Konqueror from the openSUSE main panel with the icon "Home (Personal Files)", the file names are displayed correctly. When I open Konqueror as "File Manager - Super User Mode", _then_ the characters are displayed incorrectly.
Very interesting :-)
Can it be root's environment settings?? To check, I went to "Shell - Konsole" to do a "su -", the file names are shown correctly here. So the root environment settings seem OK. Any other thoughts are welcome ...
Kde ignores the environment settings. Root has it's own settings, which in the case of kde you have to set in root's kde desktop, or in konqueror, browsing to "settings:/" and modifying language settings there. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGCaJ7tTMYHG2NR9URAnAmAJ98tj0N0hwp61N9WNwjUmuJ6xdjzQCcDmeO Hkc5LIUxcPaA0vgAk2N+Tjg= =F2I0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 01:02 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Kde ignores the environment settings. Root has it's own settings, which in the case of kde you have to set in root's kde desktop, or in konqueror, browsing to "settings:/" and modifying language settings there.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Hi Carlos, Are these config files for root's kde desktop not somewhere in /root/.kde ? I see only /root/.kde/cache-<hostname>, /root/.kde/share (with applnk, apps, config, mimelnk, services & servicetypes), /root/.kde/socket-<hostname> and /root/.kde/tmp-<hostname>. I see no files that seem to have entries for language. In Konq. under "settings:/" I only find a Default Language for Fonts. It is set on "Use Language Encoding". :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-28 at 16:27 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 01:02 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Kde ignores the environment settings. Root has it's own settings, which in the case of kde you have to set in root's kde desktop, or in konqueror, browsing to "settings:/" and modifying language settings there.
Are these config files for root's kde desktop not somewhere in /root/.kde ? I see only /root/.kde/cache-<hostname>, /root/.kde/share
I have no idea where those configurations are stored. You should not use the files, but the gadgets that kde provides for its own configuration; that's what I said.
In Konq. under "settings:/" I only find a Default Language for Fonts. It is set on "Use Language Encoding".
Browse to the pseudo url "settings:/Accessibility/" - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGDBXWtTMYHG2NR9URAoLBAJ9+EssCocTsbiANFClokwHvPmRBoACfTisR HMJnPddHlo5OvUvbsuS8FfU= =zzSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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