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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051202 Fedora/1.5-0.fc4 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
I use a number of keyboard layouts. Since my update to kde 3.5, the Swiss-German keyboard layout (de_CH) no longer works. The keyboard layout applet displays "err". In the mean time, the next best thing I can do is using the German layout (de_DE), but some of the functionality, such as accented achracters for French, is gone. More serious is the problem that some of the basic Unix characters, like the pipe, tilde, backtick and single quote are now hard to access.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.5.1-0.1.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install as a new keyboard layout "Swiss (German)" (=de_CH) using the KDE keyboard applet
2. Try to switch to that layout
3. see how instead of the label "de", the keyboard layout applet shows "err"
  

Actual Results:  see point 3 above

Expected Results:  "de" is displayed and the keyboard layout is now properly selected and functioning.

Additional info:

You can test this by typing, on an international keyboard (105 keys) the key right of the "P" while pressing shift. On the German layout, you'll get a capital U with two dots over it [Ü]. On the Swiss(German) layout you'll get the minor case e with grave accent [è].

This problem appeared both on a i386 system with kde 3.5.1 and on a x(&_64 system with kde 3.5.0, in both cases the problem happened after upgrading.