kde3: dcop konsole setEncoding doesn't change encoding

Bug #246842 reported by Risto H. Kurppa
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KDE Base
Fix Released
Medium
kdebase (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

KDE 3.5.9 and Ubuntu Hardy:

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

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

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

Changed in kdebase:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

The Intrepid Konsole version doesn't support DCOP anymore, and a fix wouldn't qualify for a stable release update, so I am closing as won't fix.

Changed in kdebase:
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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