Bug 371747 - Can't enter non-ASCII characters during installation (X11/Qt)
Summary: Can't enter non-ASCII characters during installation (X11/Qt)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 362566 373144 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 2plus
Hardware: 32bit openSUSE 11.0
: P5 - None : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2008-03-17 14:32 UTC by Stefan Hundhammer
Modified: 2008-04-11 15:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Found By: Development
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2008-03-17 14:45 UTC, Stefan Hundhammer 		Details
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Description Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-17 14:32:24 UTC 
When creating a new user during installation of 11.0-Alpha2+, German umlaut characters cannot be entered correctly.

I selected language "German" at boot time (from the isolinux function keys) and later again in the "language" menu. Switching back and forth between English and German did not change anything.


How to reproduce:

- Boot from mini-ISO CD
- Switch language to German at the boot screen
- Select SLP / 11.0-Alpha2+
- Leave language at "German"
- Select "Next" ("Weiter") until the "Create New User" dialog appears
- Try to enter a name with Umlaut characters, e.g. "Jörg Müller"
Comment 1 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-17 14:45:08 UTC 
Created attachment 202579 [details]
screen shot

(Using the PrintScreen key to make a screen shot currently doesn't work - see also bug #361995)
Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-17 14:53:17 UTC 
Same in the "test keyboard layout" input field when trying to change the keyboard layout.
Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-17 14:55:17 UTC 
Same with Czech special characters (ěščřžýáíé...).
Comment 4 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-17 14:57:29 UTC 
Hm - /usr/lib/locale in the inst-sys only contains a file "locale-archive". Looks like X11 can't find the correct locale environment?
Comment 5 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-17 15:02:25 UTC 
BTW entering those characters works nicely in the installed system. It's not a bug in the YQInputField widget.
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-03-17 15:55:07 UTC 
'locale-archive' is ok, it's just an alternative way to keep the glibc locales.

I can reproduce the bug, but umlauts _do_ work if I open an xterm. So
I guess it's yast (or qt) not setting up locales correctly.
Comment 7 Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-03-17 16:49:30 UTC 
Found it. We don't have all /usr/lib/gconv files in inst-sys; trying
to find out which ones are missing.
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-03-17 17:25:45 UTC 
It needs UTF-16.so.
Comment 9 Jiří Suchomel 2008-03-19 13:31:56 UTC 
Steffen, with Alpha3, I still have problem with Czech characters...
Comment 10 Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-03-19 13:49:04 UTC 
Yes, that is because the alphas3 deadline was last week, not this monday.
Comment 11 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-25 12:00:44 UTC 
*** Bug 362566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-04-11 15:34:35 UTC 
*** Bug 373144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***