libX11 UTF-8 locale support is dead

[Vincent Carriere]

If you type a letter with an accent (é à ê...) in openoffice nothing appears.

Ubuntu version : Hoary
Openoffice version: 1.1.2-2ubuntu6

vincent@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/locale.gen
fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.UTF-8@euro UTF-8
fr_FR UTF-8

vincent@ubuntu:~$ locale
LANG=fr_FR
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR"
LC_TIME="fr_FR"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR"
LC_NAME="fr_FR"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR"
LC_ALL=

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

same problem here in UTF-8, works fine in iso8859-15, probably this X.Org/utf-8
locale problem
(there is some copy/paste problem with gtk+1.2 apps too)

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Will investigate, but this is hairy and complex. If anyone has any insights,
please feel free to share them.

[Vincent Carriere (v.carriere)]

*** Bug 10294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sylvain Defresne (sdefresne)]

I don't know if it come from X.org since I have the same problem
with warty and xfree 4.3.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

*** Bug 10332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bastian Doetsch (bastian-doetsch)]

FYI: got this with the german locale as well.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

I've tracked down the problem to a specific set of code deltas, and am just
running through some test builds to see if I can't manage to fix it.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 10289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 10386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 9813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

The bug is due to a change in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE
-- if you drop the attached file in to replace this, all your issues should be
gone, gone, gone.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Created an attachment (id=779)
fixed en_US.UTF-8

replacement for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en-US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE; should work
for UTF-8 English locales

[Teo Ruiz (teo)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Created an attachment (id=779) [edit]
> fixed en_US.UTF-8
>
> replacement for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en-US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE; should work
> for UTF-8 English locales

Cool!. Now, as every guy of every language will ask, what about the other
locales? ;-)

[Tiziano Tissino (t-tissino)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Created an attachment (id=779) [edit]
> fixed en_US.UTF-8
>
> replacement for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en-US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE; should work
> for UTF-8 English locales
I just installed the latest x.org packages (version 6.8.1-1ubuntu3) but still
OOo and other programs don't
work with UTF-8 Chars (my locale is it_IT).

[Matthias Urlichs (smurf)]

Workaround, for the impatient:

env $(printenv|sed -ne 's,\.UTF-8,,p') oowriter

NB: I dimly remember that this bug was fixed in Sarge ... but I could be mistaken.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 10765 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Teo Ruiz (teo)]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Workaround, for the impatient:
>
> env $(printenv|sed -ne 's,\.UTF-8,,p') oowriter

This works for "ñ" but not for accented vowels.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

xorg (6.8.1-1ubuntu4) hoary; urgency=low

  * Remove debian/patches/099d*, as it broke UTF-8 locale handling and didn't
    actually fix the xterm manpage at all (closes: Ubuntu#3645).

  * Add patches stolen from the X.Org 6.8.x branch, including:
    + Perform soft resets right on non-r3xx (fd.o#988).
    + Prevent segfault in GLX on certain GL versions (fd.o#1672).
    + Fix server crash when unsetting screensaver attributes (fd.o#1695).
      (fd.o#591).
    + Prevent conflict with certain #defined constants (bool) in xf86cfg
      (fd.o#557).
    + Drag nVidia driver back from XFree86 (via X.Org HEAD) with more hardware
      support, fix for DPMS issues, PCI-Xpress support, DPMS on DVI, cursor
      fixes for NV11, proper console restoration, and Xv syncing on vblank
      (fd.o#1777).
    + Fix a stack overflow in XKB handling within libX11 (fd.o#1459).
    + Fix xmodmap stack overflow (fd.o#1818).
    + Fix from myself to fix panel size derivation when stretching is enabled
      (fd.o#1881, Ubuntu#1218).
    + Include server control keys in macintosh/us XKB definition (fd.o#1872).
    + Actually reset DPMS timer on input (fd.o#792, Ubuntu#3614).
    + Move all the fixes from #000 Fedora to this patch, as they have since
      been approved for 6.8.2.
    - New: debian/patches/000_stolen_from_6.8_branch.diff
    - Removed: debian/patches/000_stolen_from_fedora.diff
    + Large patch from Ben Herrenschmidt rejigging the detection logic for
      many ATI cards; see annotation in patch. Note that this is not yet
      committed, so this patch is subject to change and hasn't yet been folded
      into _6.8_branch.diff. This patch obsoletes #099m.
      - New: debian/patches/000_stolen_from_6.8_branch_benh_ati.diff
      - Updated:
      debian/patches/024_ati_r128_and_radeon_enable_build_without_vgahw.diff
      - Removed: debian/patches/099m_radeon_fwpll_support.diff

  * Remove interrupt handler completely on exit so we don't get lockups
    (closes: Ubuntu#2411).
    + New: debian/patches/025_r128_remove_interrupt_handler.diff

  * Add 1440x900 @ 100Hz modeline for 17" Apple iMacs (closes: Ubuntu#3712).
    + Updated: debian/xserver-xorg.templates,
      debian/989_ubuntu_add_extra_modelines_from_xorg.diff

  * Stop writing out HorizSync and VertRefresh lines to xorg.conf; if it can
    be detected by DDC, then let the driver do that instead of tying us to a
    specific monitor, and if we need to calculate it from the resolution, then
    it's a driver bug that needs fixing.
    + Updated: debian/local/dexconf.

  * First cut at proper ia64 control files (closes: Ubuntu#3817).
    + Updated: debian/MANIFEST.ia64.in, debian/xserver-xorg.install.ia64,
      debian/xlibmesa-dri.install.ia64, debian/xlibmesa-dri-dbg.install.ia64,
      debian/xserver-xorg.docs.ia64

  * Stop shipping damage.h, which is an old preliminary cut at the Damage
    client API; superseded by Xdamage.h.
    + Updated: MANIFEST.*.in, libxdamage-dev.install.

  * Fix link name (Xres->XRes) in libxres1.

  * Make libx11-dev Depend on libxkbfile-dev, and libxp-dev on libxau-dev, as
    they use files from these libraries.

  * Add dmxext.h and dmxproto.h to libdmx...

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

as above)