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    Encoding Detection Revised

    by  • August 26, 2010 • Users • 13 Comments

    In recent KDE releases up to version 4.4 Kate unfortunately very often selected the wrong encoding. The result is that e.g. german umlauts (öäü) show up as cryptic signs in the text editor. What I’ve seen lots of times is that in this case people start to fix those characters manually for the entire...

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    Kate History ;)

    by  • August 15, 2010 • Developers, KDE, Users • 14 Comments

    While setting up the new server for the Kate homepage, I actually found again old stuff Amazing that mails nearly ten years old can still be somewhere on the filesystem. Perhaps a little hint, to post the beginnings of what today is Kate/KatePart/KWrite and KTextEditor. Ten years ago, I asked the original author of...

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