Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 986690
[KDE] Cannot use dead keys in some locales
Last modified: 2015-07-13 13:37:07 EDT
* Description of problem: Dead keys don't work if LC_ALL contains a value no recognized by Xlib. I suspected that the problem was related to the locale thanks to the following message that appears in the console: I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "en_DK.utf8" Note that other X programs (like xterm) emit a similar warning, but they work all right anyway. Most X programs (eg, GTK and QT programs) do not emit the warning and work perfectly. * How reproducible: Always * Steps to Reproduce: 1 - Set LC_ALL to either "en_DK.utf8" or "en_US.utf8" 2 - Start oowriter 3 - Try to use any dead key or the compose key. * Actual results: Dead keys do not work when LC_ALL="en_DK.utf8". They work with LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" * Expected results: LC_ALL should not affect at all the behaviour of the keyboard in any X program. * Additional info: This worked perfectly in Fedora 17
As far as I can tell it seems to work fine in F19 with unknown locales. en_DK.utf8 is known to X in F-19, but aa_ER.utf8@saaho isn't and with that set my compose key works fine too.
Unfortunately, this still happens in Fedora 19 (upgraded via fedup). Also, I still get the message “I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "en_DK.utf8"”. A minor difference is that the relevant environment variable is LANG instead of LC_ALL (LC_ALL is not defined in my system now). Let me know if I can provide any more information for fixing this problem. I see two issues: 1: en_DK.utf8 is not a known locale to Xlib, at least in my system. 2: LANG and LC_ALL affect the keyboard handling in libreoffice, which they shouldn't do, in my opinion.
and what desktop environment are you using, I see absolutely no problem here locally.
I am using KDE. Sorry for not telling that before, but I didn't expect that it was relevant. Indeed, it is relevant. I have just tried in a Gnome session and it works there. I am especially surprised of the fact that I get the “…doesn't support locale…” under KDE but not under Gnome.
aha, and one last thing, this is with libreoffice-kde installed, i.e. rpm -q libreoffice-kde
Yes, libreoffice-kde-4.1.0.4-1.fc19.x86_64 is installed.
We know about this bug, something rotten in Qt :/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 968367 ***
Hrm, several upstream comments in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320423 claim this is still a problem with qt-4.8.5, re-opening.
bleh, added comment in the wrong place sorry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 968367 ***
Sorry, I really don't think that this is a duplicate of bug 968367. The problem described in this bug is related to locales (it is triggered by changing the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables, not the keyboard layout). Also, it affects only programs that do not use qt (e.g.: LibreOffice), but only while running under a Kde session.
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