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...
Read more →Hello planet, As Google Summer of Code is now finished and I have successfully passed the final evaluation, I would like to give a brief description of my project. Kate is now able to recover (most of) what was written after last save in case of a crash or power failure. A swap file...
Read more →Each night now Kate (part/app) is build from git and all unit tests are run. Yeah, we even got some tests .P Until now, that just reminds on of our failures But I hope the daily mail will perhaps motivate me and others more to fix them Beside, thanks for all the people working...
Read more →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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