trouble showing characters with accents in KDE

[mimis-suse10]

Hi there everyone

I have a minor but annoying problem: whenever I download and save files with French or German characters, the accentuated vowels are not displayed neither in
dolphin nor in konsole or gnome-terminal: I get ? (the questionmark sign) for every special character with an accent.

However, these character show well in nautilus !!!

Any ideas?
the worst is that wav-files with filenames containing any special character do not show up in amarok

Thanks in advance

mimis

PS KDE 4.10.5 “release 1” / opensuse 12.3 / kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

[farcusnz]

sounds like a character encoding problem.

In *yast > language > details
*
do you have “use utf8” checked?

[john_hudson]

Also check System Settings>Locale.

Sometimes the problem is caused because the source uses a different encoding from your desktop.

[mimis-suse10]

@farcusnz

sounds like a character encoding problem.

In *yast > language > details
*
do you have “use utf8” checked?

yes, it was checked

mimis

[mimis-suse10]

@john_hudson

Also check System Settings>Locale.

Sometimes the problem is caused because the source uses a different encoding from your desktop.

Sorry to have to ask this but, where exactly do you refer by “System Settings”

mimis

[farcusnz]

@mimis-suse10

yes, it was checked

mimis

Try unchecking it and OK out then go back in and check it again then OK out.

@mimis-suse10

Sorry to have to ask this but, where exactly do you refer by “System Settings”

mimis

from the KDE menu

Configure Desktop > Locale

I’m not sure why you would have this problem though.
In locale my desktop is set to Country - New Zealand, Available languages - English

International characters display just fine for me in Dolphin
http://paste.opensuse.org/5085418