No matter which charset I select, writing special characters (german) always results in charset=us-ascii 7 bit. It's only on ppc, can't reproduce on x86 (same KNode, kdebase, kdelibs, same Gentoo).
We need your emerge --info for the system you are having trouble with. It would be great if you could test this on KDE 3.5.7 and see if it is an issue there too as this is due to go stable shortly.
# emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2007.0/desktop/G3, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 ppc 750FX Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:20:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe -ftracer" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/spool/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/lila-theme /usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de /usr/portage/local/layman/genstef /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl aim alsa ansi automount bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam fbcon flac gdbm gecko-sdk geoip gif gimp glibc-omitfp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hbci ibam iconv icq ieee1394 imap isdnlog jabber javascript jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility libcaca libg++ mad midi mikmod mmap mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pic png ppc ppds pppd pthreads python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotes radeon readline reflection samba sasl scanner sdl session slang spell spl ssl subversion svg tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd vim vorbis wifi xine xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="powermac" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
On 3.5.7 still the same issue. Message-ID: <1449785.ZMlAvYkXZ9@burcheri.albasani.net>
Google doesn't find that message ID. Can you give us a link? Bringing in ppc as well because I can't test on that platform. Do you have any ideas, guys?
Sure it does. You did something wrong on your search (delete the "<>" braces of course). Here's the URL: http://groups.google.de/group/alt.test/msg/b53ce9ea5baf49ca (but I don't think it helps, it just shows the wrong encoding).
Please file an upstream bug on bugs.kde.org for this and post its URL here.
I've continued a quite old bug report some time ago: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42576#c5 Now I see it hasn't been reopened. I'm going to open another one... https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149465
Thanks, please re-open this bug report when there's progress on the upstream bug that would allow us to fix the problem in Gentoo.
