Krfb VNC: unable to enter Russian text from remote clients,

[PowerUser]

Configuration:
 1) Desktop: Kubuntu 8.10, x86 and x64 tested. Krfb used to allow VNC access.
 2) Remote system... I used several systems (Debian Linux and Nokia n800, both are UTF-8 aware and can enter text in Russian). Other people attempted to use MacOS X and it's default VNC - without any success, too.
 All systems are configured to allow input on two locales - English and Russian.
 Locally all works fine on all systems - both languages can be used anywhere.

To reproduce:
 1) Connect from remote host capable of two keyboard layouts to Kubuntu host using VNC.
 2) Try to enter text on Russian (maybe other non-English locales containing non-English letters will work as well).
 3) Compare text which is appears on Kubuntu with text you've actually entered.

Result:
 I'm entering Russian text. This fails, text appears as some English letters, conversion principle is unknown to me. This is unacceptable and annoying (sometimes there is need to type something non-english on remote hosts).

Expected result:
 Text appears on remote host as it was entered on remote host. I.e. Russian (Cyrillic) letters are actually Cyrillic and not getting converted into useless English letters.

Note:
 Connection from same hosts to Debian host running Gnome and it's VNC server allows to enter Russian letters without prob's. So it appears to be just some krfb or KDE specific bug or Kubuntu specific bug. I will perform tests on Ubuntu later as well to see if bug exists here.

[Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Kubuntu 8.10 reached EOL on April 30 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Kubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Unfortunately this means that there will be no more bugfixes for Kubuntu 8.10. It is also recommended that you upgrade, if you have not already.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find, and thanks for your understanding.