kdesudo double encodes the output

[Victor]

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

$ kdesudo locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

$ date
Сб. нояб. 29 12:01:26 MSK 2014

$ sudo date
[sudo] password for vic:
Сб. нояб. 29 12:01:30 MSK 2014

$ kdesudo date
Сб. ноÑб. 29 12:01:33 MSK 2014

$ kdesudo date | hexdump
0000000 90c3 9fc2 90c3 bdc2 202e 90c3 b4c2 90c3
0000010 b5c2 90c3 bac2 202e 3120 3120 3a34 3631
0000020 303a 2031 534d 204b 3032 3431 000a
000002d

$ sudo date | hexdump
0000000 9fd0 bdd0 202e b4d0 b5d0 bad0 202e 3120
0000010 3120 3a34 3631 323a 2030 534d 204b 3032
0000020 3431 000a
0000023

$ kdesudo date
Ðн. дек. 1 14:14:22 MSK 2014

$ kdesudo date | ./fix.py
Пн. дек. 1 14:14:25 MSK 2014

$ cat fix.py
#! /usr/bin/env python3
import sys

for line in sys.stdin:
    sys.stdout.write(line.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode("utf-8"))

More info here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=123725

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

kdesudo has moved to KDE infrastructure.

If you feel your bug is still relevant please open a new bug on bugs.kde.org

https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=kdesudo

[Victor (blindvic)]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351517