Bug 88102 - French accentuated characters no more from keyboard
Summary: French accentuated characters no more from keyboard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kword
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.5 or before
Platform: Mandrake RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Zander
URL:
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Reported: 2004-08-26 08:25 UTC by Daniel Moyne
Modified: 2005-07-02 23:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Daniel Moyne 2004-08-26 08:25:32 UTC
Version:           1.3 (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:                Linux

With this 1.3 version Kword does nor accept accentuted characters directly from keyboard ; instead of getting "ü" I get "u^" !
Regards.
Comment 1 David Faure 2004-08-26 11:25:35 UTC
On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:25, Daniel Moyne wrote:
> With this 1.3 version Kword does nor accept accentuted characters directly from keyboard ; instead of getting "ü" I get "u^" !

Sounds like an X configuration problem. Does it work in other applications?
Does it work in the qt textedit example? Does it work in non-qt programs?

Comment 2 Daniel Moyne 2004-08-26 13:23:36 UTC
Le jeudi 26 Ao
Comment 3 David Faure 2004-08-26 14:45:35 UTC
On Thursday 26 August 2004 13:23, Daniel Moyne wrote:
> no problem with :
> - kmail,
> - kedit,
> - kwrite,
> - kate,
> - kspread.

Huh.
Try turning off autocorrection, maybe?

Comment 4 Nicolas Goutte 2004-08-26 19:41:18 UTC
Are you creating such a character with the compose key? 

(If i remember well, u umlaut does not exist on a normal French keyboard and I suppose that you are not talking about a French Swiss keyboard).

Have a nice day!
Comment 5 Daniel Moyne 2004-08-27 10:14:44 UTC
Le jeudi 26 Ao
Comment 6 David Faure 2004-08-27 11:31:17 UTC
On Friday 27 August 2004 10:14, Daniel Moyne wrote:
> Sorry but it is not a keyboard problem but a keyboard -> kword interface 
> problem as I have to use "add special characaters" to use a "
Comment 7 Daniel Moyne 2004-08-27 12:21:02 UTC
Le vendredi 27 Ao
Comment 8 Nicolas Goutte 2004-08-27 15:27:04 UTC
I have tried with the current KWord 1.3.x and I cannot reproduce with dead keys (but I have a German keyboard. ^ and U gives û (u circumflex) correctly.)

To comment #5:
What I meant is that we need to know which keys are pressed to try to find the reason of the problem. The bug report suggested that it was a sequence like Compose key, u, ^

So my question was not wrong, as you answered that you used ^u (therefore dead keys.)

(And if my question about the French Swiss keyboard has irritated you, sorry, but a French Swiss keyboard has the u umlaut somewhere. This would have made this bug very curious but it was needed to rule out this possibility.)

Have a nice day!
Comment 9 Daniel Moyne 2004-08-27 16:27:02 UTC
Le vendredi 27 Ao
Comment 10 Nicolas Goutte 2004-08-28 20:31:30 UTC
Reading bug #88151, I am getting the feeling that you get the characters in decomposed way, as defined in Unicode: first the letter, then the modifiers.

But then why it does only show in KWord?

Have a nice day!

Comment 11 Waldo Bastian 2004-09-16 14:39:20 UTC
What is the exact Qt version you are using?
Do you have the same problem in kbabel? (make sure to open a .po file first)
Comment 12 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-16 16:32:06 UTC
Le jeudi 16 Septembre 2004 14:39, Waldo Bastian a 
Comment 13 Marc Collin 2004-09-18 04:24:32 UTC
i confirm this bug

KDE Version 1.3.2 (KDE 3.3.0, SuSE)

Application KOffice Word Processor

Operating System Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.108-default

Compiler gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)

kword don't accept accentuted characters... but work with kmail, kate...
Comment 14 Nicolas Goutte 2004-09-19 18:56:23 UTC
To comment #13: for SuSE, it is bug #88151 and Waldo Bastian has written:
"This is probably caused by a bug in the SUSE Qt package (immodule patch). (SUSE BR44633)"

Have a nice day!
Comment 15 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-19 19:55:42 UTC
Le dimanche 19 Septembre 2004 18:56, Nicolas Goutte a 
Comment 16 David Faure 2004-09-20 15:11:40 UTC
On Sunday 19 September 2004 19:55, Daniel Moyne wrote:
> I am using a Mandrake distrib !
I am told Mandrake applied the same Qt patch, this would explain it.

And no, the fact that it works in other kde/qt apps means nothing - KWord does
a few things differently, e.g. enabling key compression...

Comment 17 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-21 10:27:35 UTC
Le lundi 20 Septembre 2004 15:11, David Faure a 
Comment 18 David Faure 2004-09-21 11:40:16 UTC
> and is this configured in some set-up window by the user ?
No.

Comment 19 UTUMI Hirosi 2004-09-22 10:35:48 UTC
Laurent removed the immodule patch.
Try qt3-3.3.3-25mdk (Mandrake Cooker) please.
Does it work fine with KWord?

btw, Mandrake's immodule patch is old.
Fedora applied qt-immodule-20040910.
I packed it for Mandrake Cooker. You can get it (SRPM) at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=109779&package_id=118615

Enjoy,
Comment 20 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-22 14:07:02 UTC
Le mercredi 22 Septembre 2004 10:35, UTUMI Hirosi a 
Comment 21 UTUMI Hirosi 2004-09-22 18:03:59 UTC
> Rather than getting a source can I get a binary rpm ready for Mandrake ? 
You don't need to test my package. Laurent will not apply the patch. :-p
Just try Laurent's libqt3-3.3.3-25mdk (Mandrake Cooker) please. Laurent disabled
immodule patch on *-25mdk.
If you can type accent on libqt3-3.3.3-25mdk + KWord, we can say "Qt-immodule 
breaks KWord".

nicolasg said
> Kate , Kwrite, Mail no problems ! 
David said
> And no, the fact that it works in other kde/qt apps means nothing - KWord does
> a few things differently, e.g. enabling key compression...
I think it is KWord's bug...
Comment 22 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-24 02:29:36 UTC
Le mercredi 22 Septembre 2004 18:04, UTUMI Hirosi a écrit :
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> You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.
>         
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88102        
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From utuhiro78 yahoo co jp  2004-09-22 18:03 
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> > Rather than getting a source can I get a binary rpm ready for Mandrake ? 
> You don't need to test my package. Laurent will not apply the patch. :-p
> Just try Laurent's libqt3-3.3.3-25mdk (Mandrake Cooker) please. Laurent 
disabled
> immodule patch on *-25mdk.
> If you can type accent on libqt3-3.3.3-25mdk + KWord, we can say 
"Qt-immodule 
> breaks KWord".
> 
> nicolasg said
> > Kate , Kwrite, Mail no problems ! 
> David said
> > And no, the fact that it works in other kde/qt apps means nothing - KWord 
does
> > a few things differently, e.g. enabling key compression...
> I think it is KWord's bug...
I have installed alle related packages in 3.3.3-26mdk as I could only find 
3.3.3-25mdk for sparc and I need i586

It does not change anything : Kword and Konsole do no accept keyboard key 
combinations for French accentuated characters as I would expect because all 
other KDE applications handling text work and therefore why Kword and Konsole 
would not !
Regards

Comment 23 UTUMI Hirosi 2004-09-24 11:42:28 UTC
See qt3.spec:
-------
%changelog
* Thu Sep 23 2004 Laurent MONTEL <lmontel[at]mandrakesoft.com> 3.3.3-26mdk
- Remove patch103: pb with image
(Patch103:	0005-qpixmap_mitshm.patch.bz2)

* Tue Sep 21 2004 Laurent MONTEL <lmontel[at]mandrakesoft.com> 3.3.3-25mdk
- Disable immodule, there is some bug reported on bugs.kde.org
-------

> I have installed alle related packages in 3.3.3-26mdk
(snip)
> It does not change anything
Qt-immodule is disabled. The problem is caused by other things.
You can report it to Mandrake Bugzilla.

Thanks.
Hirosi
Comment 24 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-24 11:50:50 UTC
Le vendredi 24 Septembre 2004 11:42, UTUMI Hirosi a 
Comment 25 UTUMI Hirosi 2004-09-24 12:14:56 UTC
> Do youn think it is a Mandrake problem not a KDE problem ? 
I'm not using other distro, so I don't know whether it is Mandrake's own problem or not.
Comment 26 Daniel Moyne 2004-09-27 10:12:20 UTC
Le vendredi 24 Septembre 2004 12:14, UTUMI Hirosi a 
Comment 27 Nicolas Goutte 2004-10-04 02:51:19 UTC
So I suppose that this bug is fixed.
Comment 28 Marc Collin 2005-04-25 05:32:41 UTC
i have this bug with kde 1.3.5 with suse 9.3 (kde 3.4)
i can write é but i'm not able to do: è, ì...
Comment 29 David Faure 2005-07-02 23:30:15 UTC
OK, I just saw the bug too with a self-compiled Qt-3.3.3, no custom patches applied. Upgrading to 3.3.4 helped. So for people who have no accentuated characters working in any Qt/KDE application (including e.g. kedit and konsole), the fix is simple: upgrade to Qt 3.3.4.