Bug 112774

Summary:	kdm does not know that we live in utf-8
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component:	KDE	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, sndirsch
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	fixed version of /etc/init.d/xdm /etc/init.d/xdm

Description Juergen Weigert 2005-08-24 17:20:19 UTC

If keyboard is german, typing umlaut characters produces non-printable 
two-byte characters in kdm. 
 
this is a bug in /etc/init.d/xdm, where the language is not initialized 
properly. Adding 
test -e /etc/profile.d/lang.sh  && . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh 
helps.

Comment 1 Juergen Weigert 2005-08-24 17:33:13 UTC

Created attachment 47443 [details]
fixed version of /etc/init.d/xdm

sourceing lang.sh is silly.
The code around $locale_vars below does almost what is needed. It just needs to
be correct code...

Comment 2 Juergen Weigert 2005-08-24 18:26:40 UTC

not quite.  
kdm needs LANG=POSIX and LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8  
  
the  /etc/init.d/xdm from comment#1 does LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and 
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8, which apparently does not switch to UTF-8 mode, as it 
prodices the same symptoms as setting everything to POSIX.

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 08:08:54 UTC

In this case kdm is simply broken.

Comment 4 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 08:49:59 UTC

One major problem is that /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdeglobals
written by SuSEconfig overwrites the locale.  I now use the
line

   test -n "$LANG" && export KDE_LANG=$LANG

in /etc/init.d/xdm ... please test the next attachment.

Comment 5 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 08:51:20 UTC

Created attachment 47489 [details]
/etc/init.d/xdm

New version of /etc/init.d/xdm which uses KDE_LANG

Comment 6 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 09:15:00 UTC

Just test this, and it _is_ a KDM/KDE bug. The LANG variable
_must_ set to POSIX even if LC_CTYPE is set to an UTF-8
encoding.  The variable KDE_LANG does not work with kdm.

Comment 7 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 09:19:11 UTC

I've put a fixed /etc/init.d/xdm into aaa_base.

Comment 8 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 09:38:38 UTC

Fix the kdm

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-25 10:49:06 UTC

it's no kdm problem, but a config problem - and is fixed now. New 
kdebase3-SuSE is in done/STABLE

Comment 10 Jan Engelhardt 2005-09-11 09:06:26 UTC

Maybe has to do with bug #116316 ?

Comment 11 Mike Fabian 2005-09-12 10:31:07 UTC

Jan> Maybe has to do with bug #116316 ?

No.