ding doesn't accept ä-characters

[Oliver Sauder]

Binary package hint: ding

ding doesn't accept ä-characters.

For instance I try to find a translation for "gefährlich" and use the ä-key on my German keyboard. It doesn't accept the ä and writes instead a space resp. an unknown character. If I use the ö and ü-key then it works fine. Also the umlaut buttons work fine.

The problem might be in the tk8.4 toolkit, but I couldn't figure out the real problem yet.

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

I could find the problem.

The explicit definition of LC_CTYPE to de_DE.UTF8 causes problem if the Linux installation uses a different language setting. If this declaration is removed then it works fine and I can type ä without any problems.

I'm not sure if the removing from the LC_CTYPE declaration causes other problems. Others might test "ding" without this declaration as well and see if it works.

You'll find a dpatch against version 1.5-2 attached.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ding - 1.5-2ubuntu1

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ding (1.5-2ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Oliver Sauder ]

  * The explicit definition of LC_TYPE to de_DE.UTF8 causes
    problems if the Linux installation uses another locale
    setting (LP: #174596).

 -- Morten Kjeldgaard <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:26:00 +0200