Bug#316258: kate: Kate opens documents with wrong encoding

[Braun Gabor <braung@renyi.hu>]

Followup-For: Bug #316258
Package: kate
Version: 4:3.5.3-2

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Hi,

I am not the original bug reporter but I think I have a similar problem.

General problem: I open an UTF-8 file and kate displays it.  Non-ascii 
characters are displayed as a sequence of totally different characters.

Then I go to the menu Tools->Encoding.
I see that 'Western European (iso 8859-1)' is ticked.  I select 'Unicode 
(utf8)' and after that most of the characters are displayed correctly (I 
think the exceptions are those for which there is no font installed.)

This happens e.g. with all the .desktop coming with KDE, for example

/usr/share/applications/kde/kate.desktop

The same happens for XML files, which are correctly recognized as XML files 
(as is visible due to coloring of the file) but not the encoding.

I expect kate to autodetect UTF-8 encoding since false positives are rare.

Best wishes,

	Gabor Braun

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.iso88592, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.iso88592 (charmap=ISO-8859-2) 
(ignored: LC_ALL set to hu_HU.iso88592)

Versions of packages kate depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a            4:3.5.3-1         core libraries and binaries for 
al
ii  libacl1                2.2.23-1          Access control list shared 
library
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D 
graphi
ii  libattr1               2.4.16-1          Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2              1.7-2             The Network Audio System (NAS). 
(s
ii  libc6                  2.3.6-15          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfam0c102 [libfam0]  2.7.0-6sarge1     client library to control the FAM 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.3.1-2           generic font configuration 
library
ii  libfreetype6           2.2.1-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.1.1-5         GCC support library
ii  libice6                1:1.0.0-3         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11               0.6.3-1           GNU libidn library, 
implementation
ii  libjpeg62              6b-10             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.8rel-1        PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt              3:3.3.6-2         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime 
v
ii  libsm6                 1:1.0.0-4         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.1.1-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.0-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1.1.3-1           X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.0-4         X11 miscellaneous extension 
librar
ii  libxft2                2.1.7-1           FreeType-based font drawing 
librar
ii  libxi6                 1:1.0.0-5         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.1-4         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.1.0.2-4       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.0.2-4       X Rendering Extension client 
libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.0-5         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime

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