Bug 144846

Summary: No apostrophe visible on keypress
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Dirk <dirk>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.6.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dirk 2007-04-30 00:14:35 UTC 
Version:           1.6.5 (using KDE 3.5.5, Debian Package 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8 (4.0))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-4-686

In my new Debian Etch KDE I cannot type an apostrophe (´) in the x-terminal "Konsole" 1.6.5 (KDE 3.5.5). When I press the apostrophe-key on my german keyboard (the key left from backspace) I get a "?" instead of the "´".
I get this problem in x-terminal Konsole _and_ in an xterm. The apostrophe-key works fine in kdm, on a tty or in applications like gaim or OOo.
It´s not a truetype-problem, I´ve tried several truetypes. And: it is no user-problem, it occurs on all accounts on this an a second Etch-based computer.

What´s this for a strange behaviour?
Comment 1 Robert Knight 2007-04-30 02:00:05 UTC 
Hello Dirk,

Does changing the character encoding make a difference?

(via Settings -> Encoding)

Try the Unicode ( utf8 ) option if it is not already selected.
Comment 2 Dirk 2007-04-30 08:57:54 UTC 
Good Morning ;-)

Hmm. Yes, changing to utf8 gives me the correct behaviour. But the whole system is working on de_DE@euro (ISO 8859-15), so since then I get the problem that all other special-characters (like the german ö, ä, ü...) are not displayed correct any more. So this would not solve my problem. I think this is a KDE- or Konsole-problem:
- am I using "standard" I get no apostrophe
- am I using "utf8" all other special-characters give problems
- am I using "ISO 8859-1" I get back the apostrophe, but then I loose the EURO-character and
- am I using "ISO 8859-15" I get the same behaviour then on "standard".
:-(

So, this does not solve the problem.


Greets,

Dirk
Comment 3 Robert Knight 2007-05-01 00:34:43 UTC 
You mentioned that you encounter this in xterm as well in your original report. 

xterm uses no KDE components at all, so I suspect the problem is occurring at a lower level.  You could try gnome-terminal and see if the problem is apparent there as well.

I suggest that your distribution is the best place to go for help in this case.
Comment 4 Kurt Hindenburg 2009-02-22 04:29:07 UTC 
Reopen if you can duplicate on KDE 4 and is not system-wide issue.