Bug 54220

Description of Problem:

> When pressing dead keys (diacritics) in konsole, both signs appear
> separately. I.e. ^ + e stays ^e rather than becoming j. In other K
> applications, such as kate, this doesn't happen. It doesn't happen in
> dialog boxes spawned by konsole (for example, in the "rename session"
> menu), but only in the actual terminal window.
>
> It also happens in konqueror (in forms on Web pages), but only after a
> while: a freshly started konqueror is ok, but if it has been running for
> some time, suddenly dead keys stop working. In konsole, the problem is 
much
> easyer to reproduce, as it happens right from the start, and 
consistently.
>
> Now, the odd part is that this only happens on RedHat. On my SuSE box, 
with
> the exact same kde version (2.2.1) and qt version (2.3.1), it works ok. 
It
> seems to be indeed linked to the app rather than the X-server, because a
> konsole running on the RedHat box, but displayed on the SuSE's X-server 
has
> the problem, whereas a konsole running on the SuSE box, but displayed on
> the RedHat box doesn't have it.
>
> Copying libqt.so.2 and libkdeui.so.3 from the SuSE box to the RedHat box
> seems to fix the problem: konsole now correctly handles dead keys.
> Unfortunately, both libraries have to be copied together, indeed whith 
just
> copying one, konsole crashes. So, it's not easy to find out whether it 
is
> libqt's or libkdeui's fault.
>
> Copying both libs is not a permanent solution though, as this hack 
prevents
> other kde apps from starting.
>
> However, I noticed that downgrading qt to qt-2.3.0 also fixes the 
problem.
> But again, qt-2.3.1 works just fine on SuSE.
>
> I notified qt-bugs and kde-bugs about it, and kde-bugs redirected me to 
you


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

 qt-2.3.1

How Reproducible:

 Always reproducible using konsole. Most of the times (but not always) in 
konqueror.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a konsole.
2. type ^ (dead-circumflex), then e into it

Actual Results:

 "^e" appears.

Expected Results:

 "j" should appear.

Additional Information:

 Works ok in SuSE with same qt version (2.3.1). Works ok in RedHat with 
older qt version (2.3.0). Works ok by manually copying over qt-2.3.1 libs 
from SuSE to Redhat. This seems to indicate a compilation/configuration 
problem with the qt-2.3.1 supplied for Redhat, rather than a problem in 
Qt itself.