Bug 198773 - konsole has problems with chars like à,è,ì,ò,ù. utf8 encoding
Summary: konsole has problems with chars like à,è,ì,ò,ù. utf8 encoding
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2009-07-03 13:43 UTC by xdmx
Modified: 2011-07-30 20:30 UTC (History)
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Description xdmx 2009-07-03 13:43:33 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I've problems with konsole and chars like à,è,ì,ò,ù (probably others too).
I type là, then do one backspace and then type the s for the ls command.
The result is bash: l�s: command not found
I've to do 2 backspaces to remove one char.
I use utf8

Here's the bugcast: http://www.revoc.net/konsole.ogv
Comment 1 xdmx 2009-08-11 20:37:27 UTC 
this bug it still valid also for kde 4.3.. :(
Comment 2 Marian Kyral 2009-08-11 22:47:53 UTC 
This sometimes happen to me as well, but just now I'm not able to reproduce it :-(

$ konsole -v
Qt: 4.5.2
KDE: 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0)
Konsole: 2.3
Comment 3 Marian Kyral 2009-09-18 15:38:18 UTC 
So I fond the reason.
It happen when I switch to root using "sudo su" command. In this case the locale is not set (don't know why). I still can write accent characters like "áí" and characters are correctly shown. But backspace deletes only one byte and the second byte causes the � is shown.

Testcase:
 * open a new tab
 * unset LANG
 * type lá
 * delete á
 * type s
 * enter
 * bash: l�s: command not found
Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-30 20:30:47 UTC 
$LANG probably not setup correctly, not konsole's fault