Comment 133 for bug 510018

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In , Jeoffreymonpoaon (jeoffreymonpoaon) wrote :

I'm on KDE 4.8.4 (Debian) and today I've found a solution for Dolphin (I have the same problem with Ark while extracting a file with non-ASCII caracters but this method I give to you don't work for it) :

> Edit the file called "kdeglobals" on your home/.kde/share/config
> Add this line in the "[Locale]" paragraph :
Charset=iso8859-15
I'm French so this is the corresponding iso for my language. This iso (8859-15) works for a lot of languages, especially almost all of european ones.
> Save, close the file, eventually log out and log in but I didn't need to do this to make it work.
Now you will be able to display and modify these files in Dolphin.

Modifying your Locale.gen is useless in KDE.
It works for me, I hope it will work for you too.
Sorry if my english is bad !