[SOLVED] System-wide character encoding issue

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 17:20:28

localectl now shows this after setting the keymap:

System Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
VC Keymap: us
X11 Layout: us
X11 Model: pc105+inet
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

Still the same issue...

ugjka · 2017-08-20 17:23:27

According per wiki try deleting ~/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 17:30:56

Sadly, I already saw this in the wiki

Just removed it again, rebooted, with no succes.

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 17:33:32

Ugjka,

look what I just found. I never thought it could be KDE Plasma related.

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=125083

Edit: It doesn't look like eaxctly the same but close.

Last edited by johan.cb (2017-08-20 17:35:48)

ugjka · 2017-08-20 17:48:52

Edit: something wrong

Last edited by ugjka (2017-08-20 17:50:10)

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 17:53:28

We actually may have goten closer.

Now my AltGr key which I used to append accents to letters is not working anymore. But I don't get any "question mark character".

ugjka · 2017-08-20 17:58:44

Well I don't know seems like localectl condenses everything to LANG=fr_FR.utf8 when I try

localectl set-locale LANG=fr_FR.utf8 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.utf8 LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.utf8 LC_NAME=fr_FR.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.utf8 LC_PAPER=fr_FR.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_TIME=fr_FR.utf8

the previous command was incorrect

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johan.cb · 2017-08-20 18:01:00

Back to the same result, now I have the question mark character again.

Thanks for your help by the way!

ugjka · 2017-08-20 18:06:27

Ok try something weird

localectl set-locale LANG=C LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.utf8 LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.utf8 LC_NAME=fr_FR.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.utf8 LC_PAPER=fr_FR.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.utf8 LC_TIME=fr_FR.utf8

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 18:29:06

Still the same sadly

ugjka · 2017-08-20 18:43:28

I'm lost, hopefully someone smarter will chime in

dockland · 2017-08-20 18:45:13

Just a sanity check, but what is your keyboard layout in current DE?

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 18:46:22

Thank you very much for your help Ugjka!

I have three keyboard layout:
-FR (France)
-DE (Germany)
-US (English, Macintosh)*

*the layout I am using at the moment. But I have the same issue with the other two.

Last edited by johan.cb (2017-08-20 18:47:36)

johan.cb · 2017-08-20 20:39:29

More information:

I think my bug it Qt 5 related. Qt 4 and GTK applications don't show this issue. Qt 4 designer behaves like it should, like VLC for example too but Qt 5 Designer fails.

If you guys could help me confirm this, I will report it upstream.

ugjka · 2017-08-21 07:28:45

johan.cb wrote:

Thank you very much for your help Ugjka!
I have three keyboard layout:
-FR (France)
-DE (Germany)
-US (English, Macintosh)*
*the layout I am using at the moment. But I have the same issue with the other two.

Last thoughts what happens if you uncomment also de_DE and en_US locales in locale.gen?

johan.cb · 2017-08-21 20:41:04

Hello ugjka,

no change.

I reported the bug upstream in the hope it is Qt related. I will update this thread if I get more input.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62627

Last edited by johan.cb (2017-08-21 20:41:20)

loqs · 2017-08-21 21:02:22

If you change the user's ~/.xinitrc back to starting the default twm + xclock + xterms that should eliminate qt as a factor.

johan.cb · 2017-08-31 19:49:56

This topic was the solution : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214763

Removing .cache solved the issue on both my systems.

Thank you all for your help. Marking as solved.

Arch Linux

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