Kate with openSUSE leap42.1 uses chinese(?) characters in a sddm.conf
I edited /etc/sddm.conf with kate on openSUSE leap42.1, adding some parameters. Everything looked alright, in particular I could read what I was entering...
Those new parameters didn't work. So I went back and opened /etc/sddm.conf with kate again -- getting a message, that kate had opened the file with UTF8 encoding but there were characters contained with a different encoding and alright, anything I had entered showed up as chinese(?). I tried it with cat, kwrite and vim, they all confirmed chinese(?) entries. So, how / why could this happen? (How) Can I re-convert my entries to UTF8? And to add to this confusion, /etc/sddm.conf looks now (one evening later) like this Code:
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are you SURE that they are now in Chinese pictographs
-- the above line in traditional Quote:
Korean is very different in looks Quote:
or is it the normal ascii block that looks like a domino's tile |
No it is not Korean, but certainly asian. I'm not an expert there, I don't know which language they really belong to, they just looked like chinese (your first example) or japanese (kanji).
How do I "reset my language"? It is (was) definitely not smeared ascii. |
I tried also editing under windows both with word and the little text editor. No luck. I typed it into a newly opened document in windows (the whole shebang in sddm.conf). No luck again. I used dos2unix on the files. Still no luck. I filed a bug in april on openSUSE's bugzilla. No reaction either. I guess sddm not only reads but also alters sddm.conf, but that is way over my head to solve.
*sigh* Really nobody with an idea how to circumvent this? |
as above i asked is it really Chinese "simple" or "traditional "
or like this " ⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲ " like a domino tile for the domino tiles it is a missing language this is my "sddm.conf" Code:
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Just noticing: is MinimumUid=0 too low? What number is root? But still, this should not create symbols of another language. |
root is 500 or 1000
i dual boot with scientificlinux so both are set to 1000 |
Okay, jut to test for buffer-underrun or some such I set MinimumUid=1 -- same problem.
New is, that after logging in with the edited sddm.conf I get a mixture of asian characters, symbols and latin letters. I try to copy that as an example from the console: Code:
HideUsers=at,audio,퍄,☠딀,틕羕,e,KQ,▒羕▒ |
try using 500 or 1000 as the min
root IS the very first user so and system processes use lower id's systemd is uuid 1 |
I'm trying to enable graphical login for root -- without the whole bunch of daemons cluttering the login window. That is what HideUsers should do...
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kdm blocks that i take it you are using plasma 5 there is NO text login option any more ( kde4 did have that ) but you can change the target to do a text only boot then login as root in the terminal and then run "startx " or "kdm" |
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