Problem with dead keys, cannot write some accentuated characters with KDE apps

[Loic Pefferkorn]

I can't write some accentuated characters in KDE apps (konsole, kwrite, ...),
like ê or ï, if I try i get ^e or ¨i.
Same problem in console, the ^ character simply doesn't appears at all.

But it works well under firefox and gnome apps (like gedit).

Tested with Kubuntu (hoary|breezy)

[Jean-Rémy Falleri (jrfaller)]

I have the same bug ^e ^i!

[Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich (chewie-gmail)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I can't write some accentuated characters in KDE apps (konsole, kwrite, ...),
> like ê or ï, if I try i get ^e or ¨i.
> Same problem in console, the ^ character simply doesn't appears at all.
>
> But it works well under firefox and gnome apps (like gedit).
>
> Tested with Kubuntu (hoary|breezy)

Same here.

[Joao Clemente (jpcl)]

I confirm the bug, using Kubuntu and Portuguese keyboard.
This bug may be [the same or] related to bug #19487 wich I just opened, wich
basically states that the same deadkeys problem also affects console-mode.
I opened the new bug was this one (#12799) is marked as related to "KDE".

[P (p92)]

Breezy,
Same for french keyboard and using -44 xorg versions

xorg keyboard defined as :
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
        Option "XkbOptions" "eurosign:e"
EndSection

RXVT : ^ key is not dead thus leading to ^e ^i ...
XTERM: ^ key is dead (ie nothing is printed no cursor advance) but ^e leads to e
KONSOLE and KDE appl : same as RXVT

FIREFOX: correct behaviour.

TTY CONSOLE: ^ key is dead but ^e leads to nothing

[P (p92)]

duplicate of #12184

[Joao Clemente (jpcl)]

Please check #19487 (old #13242 I mencioned earlier) as I seem to have found a solution for my problem in console. If these bugs are in fact related, it may help you.

Hope this helps.
Joao Clemente

[Loic Pefferkorn (loic)]

fixed since Dapper.

[Nelo (nelo)]

Hello,
Sorry... it isn't fixed since Dapper, I have got the same problem with Edgy.

* I can't write some accentuated characters in KDE apps
* (konsole, kwrite, ...),
* like ê or ï, if I try i get ^e or ¨i.
* Same problem in console, the ^ character simply doesn't
* appears at all.

* But it works well under firefox and gnome apps (like gedit).

* Tested with Kubuntu (hoary|breezy)

[Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste)]

I didn't have any problems with dead keys (French Canadian keyboard) but they don't work anymore since I upgraded to Edgy. (I am running the 3.5.6 KDE packages. (The dead keys aren't working only in KDE/QT applications.)

I have the following locale information:
LANG=
LC_CTYPE=fr_CA
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME=fr_CA
LC_COLLATE=fr_CA
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

I notice that if I start an application from konsole, I have the following messages:
QInputContext: no input method context available

If I start the application with LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8, the dead keys works as expected. (I am using the ISO-8859-1 version of the locale, I had to add it to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local as by default only UTF-8 version of the locale are generated.)

[Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)]

I had this with Edgy, but I just tested on Feisty and it seems fixed in KDE 3.5.7.

I changed my locale to ISO-8859-1 (pt_BR), logged into KDE and tried dead keys accents with konsole, kmail and konqueror. For all I know, this is fixed now. I am setting the report to Fix Released, since this is not the official version.