[Bug 246842] [NEW] kde3: dcop konsole setEncoding doesn't change encoding

[Risto H. Kurppa]

Public bug reported:

KDE 3.5.9 and Ubuntu Hardy:

Can't change the encoding of a Konsole session with dcop, see below:

kurppa at lanka:~$ kwin --version
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.9
KWin: 3.0
kurppa at lanka:~$ lsb_release -r
Release:        8.04

kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding ISO-8859-1
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding UTF-8
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding ISO-8859-15
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding iso-8859-15
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding ISO-8859-15
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding UTF-8
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 setEncoding utf-8
kurppa at lanka:~$ dcop konsole-29509 session-1 encoding
ISO 8859-2
kurppa at lanka:~$

at irc there was someone using debian lenny with same software versions
as I and for him it worked so it might be a Kubuntu-specific bug.

** Affects: kdebase
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #120998
   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120998

** Also affects: kdebase via
   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120998
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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kde3: dcop konsole setEncoding doesn't change encoding
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