Kde doesn't like my utf8 locale settings.

[rvalles]

I want to use unicode, so I did generate a unicode locale for my country this way:

localedef -f UTF-8 -i ca_ES ca_ES.utf8

And then set it in LC_ALL and LANG env variables.

Everything worked, I can type/display kana/kanji, accent characters, etc. without major problems. But KDE doesn't seem to like it; the dead keys don't work anymore so I cannot write accented characters. Starting kde apps with my old locale env variables does work, and Gnome/Xterm/etc give me no problems at all.

I don't know why does that happen, so tell me if you do.

[rvalles]

Somebody else's (not gentoo user) X11 server does have ca_ES.UTF-8 locale in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale . Mine doesn't. So I guess Gentoo doesn't build that locale by default or something like that. If you know how to tell Gentoo that I want support for the ca_ES.utf8 or ca_ES.UTF-8 locales, tell me. (using ca_ES.utf8 just because locale -a does return some .utf8 locales but no .UTF-8 locale at all)

[rvalles]

It seems I use ca_ES.UTF-8 and everything works then. glibc interprets that as an alias for ca_ES.utf8, and Xlib does like UTF-8 (it didn't like utf8 and showed a warning).

Happy Unicoding