Problem opening an ASCII file that begins (the file) with a dot

[boccon]

My problem is as follows:
if a text file begins with a dot '.' and it's 2 or more chars long, Konqueror displays a blank page when I click on the file's icon. The same happens if I choose to open it in Konqueror embedded file viewer, and the same again happens if I right-click ==> view document source; this time Gedit will display a blank file (but only when invoked by Konqueror).
Any body able to help me here?
'uname -a' = 'Linux debian 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 08:42:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux'
Konqueror 3.5.5
KDE 3.5.5
Gnome 2.14.3

[iwanabeguru]

hi

I think it is KDE related problem. I never used KDE but if you do some search i'm prety sure you will find an options about the treating of hidden files.

A dot in the begining of a filename means that file is a hidden file.

[boccon]

The problem is not concerning the file name, but the file CONTENTS.
After a few experiments I was able to solve it -- sort of.
An ASCII file containing simply '.a' (without the quotes), opens in the default editor when clicked on.
A similar file containing '.ab' is instead displayed as a TOTALLY blank file, and the same is true if the file contains lots more text, as long as its FIRST character is a DOT.
Having discovered that if the file-name is given a recognized extension like .txt, .c, .pl etc., the file is opened normally, then I played a bit with the 'file association' of Konqueror, and
ended-up adding the '*' pattern to the .txt, .TXT for 'plain text' files; an asterisk did the trick, but I wander if Konqueror "looks" inside the file to determine its type, or if now just any file will try to open in the editor instead.
Thanks for replying anyway.