Re: I wish I knew why emacs is smarter than Kile....

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Dear gurus,

Disclaimer: I am not a guru.

> I use emacs for most programming and scripting tasks (what else?), but
> have to come to like kile for writing LaTeX. I have never seemed to
> manage locales very well, and now after an update on testing, kile
> displays German characters (Umlauts and Esszed i.e. äöüß) as gibberish
> e.g. Ì, while emacs shows everything correctly. What is going on and
> how to fix it?

Manually select the correct encoding in kile: Tools --> Encoding

I don't remember how to set a global default value for the encoding, but
that might be related to the settings of kde / kate.

HTH,
Johannes