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STiAT

Member

From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

UTF8 and ISO-8859-1

Hello everyone.

We all finally got over the utf8-change on the system. But there occurs one problem.

I'm using arch/linux for software development in my company. The files should definitely not be saved and written in UTF8, but in ISO-8859-1 format.

I've got the thing now that actually kate can convert this, but i'm bored of changing the encoding all the time over and over again i hopen kate or a file.

Does anyone know a way to tell kate i want a default iso-8859-1 encoding for my files?

Thanks,
STi

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Romashka

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: UTF8 and ISO-8859-1

If you use only standard ASCII chars in your text then UTF-8 files will be exactly the same as ISO-8859-1. I see that you are from Austria and most probably your text contains non-English chars, if it is not pure code with comments in English. This is just a reminder, just in case.

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gradgrind

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: UTF8 and ISO-8859-1

You could try:   (kate menu bar)  Settings -> Configure Kate -> (Editor) Open/Save

(at least in the English version)

Then at the top there is File Format / Encoding.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: UTF8 and ISO-8859-1

or perhaps alias kate='LANG=C LC_ALL=C kate" would work. or a shell script or a...

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STiAT

Member

From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: UTF8 and ISO-8859-1

Hmh, that mus be because i get old and start being blind.

Thanks gradgrind... works flawlessly.

// STi

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