Bug 85333

Summary:	Encoding problem when entering passwords. Non-ASCII misinterpreted
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Gilles Schintgen <gschintgen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	echidnaman, finex, yuriy.kozlov
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gilles Schintgen 2004-07-16 14:58:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I just changed my system encoding to utf-8 and I'm hoping the following behaviour isn't my fault.

My kwallet password contains an accented character (ü) but after the switch to utf-8 kwallet no longer accepts my password. It clearly misinterprets keyboard input. When I type in that accented character *two* asterisks appear instead of one. I haven't found any other utf-8 related problems so far in KDE, so I suppose this is a kwallet bug.

As a workaround I simply changed my password to be ASCII-only (which probably is the only reasonable choice for passwords).

Comment 1 Steve Walesch 2004-07-16 15:27:18 UTC

Same thing with KWallet in SuSE 9.1. But kdesu also has this behaviour (two stars appearing for accented characters) whereas the password dialog for fish does not do this.

Comment 2 George Staikos 2004-11-03 04:31:54 UTC

Not a KWallet bug.

Comment 3 Jonathan Thomas 2009-04-21 19:38:49 UTC

*** Bug 140936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jonathan Thomas 2009-04-21 19:41:53 UTC

For the record, we have received bug reports about this from KDE 4.2: https://launchpad.net/bugs/333459 (It's been marked as a duplicate of the original bug at https://launchpad.net/bugs/82275)

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2011-07-26 12:15:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 269192 ***