Accents and umlauts don't work in KDE apps with some catalan locales

[Orestes Mas]

In catalan language we've more than one locale in order to cope with some minor variants and/or catalan being spoken across 4 countries. Specifically, we have:

ca_ES.UTF-8
ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia
ca_AD.UTF-8
ca_FR.UTF-8
ca_IT.UTF-8

Well, some users are reporting that in Kubuntu GUTSY with LANG variable set to any of the locales above listed, except the first one, keyboard dead keys (accents and umlauts) are not working properly within KDE/Qt applications, while Gnome/Gtk apps work well.

This bug is easy to reproduce opening a konsole window and manually setting and exporting the "LANG" variable to any locale of the above list and then invoking some kde application (e.g. Kate) from within the konsole:

export LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8
kate

It can be easily noted that deadkeys only work with first locale.

So this problem is solved using always the first locale, but I don't consider this a "fix".

[Carles González Silva (carles-gonzalez)]

Solution Hardy: change in /etc/default/locale the message LANG="ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia" for LANG="ca_ES.UTF-8"

Best regards,

[Ivà Burgos (ivaburgos)]

I can confirm this bug and the workround. Is anybody able to explain to me why is this locale the default?

[Toni Hermoso Pulido (toniher)]

The problem is in libx11-data. In Intrepid it's fixed since I presume you get it from upstream. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10943

I would personally include these patches in any upcoming updates in Heron LTS.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi orestes,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.