Problem with special (accented) charcacters

[Maik Qualmann]

Is it a problem when entering accented letters in an input field or is the 
accented letter not displayed later in digiKam? Which database type are you 
using (SQLite or MySQL).

Maik

Am Montag, 1. Juli 2024, 23:51:17 MESZ schrieb Sergio Quintero:
> Hi all, I've searched the mailing list about this without success, so
> here's my question.
> 
> I just can't use accented characters in digikam, for example, if I try to
> add this tag:
> 
> "Acción" or "Álvaro"
> I'll get this:
> "Accion" or "Alvaro"
> 
> Same problem with searches, titles, captions or any other field within the
> program.
> 
> I'm using Mint 21.3, and I've tried changing the program language to
> spanish, the whole OS to spanish, and tried all spanish keyboard layouts
> without success. Accented characters works just fine in any other program,
> I'm just having problems with Digikam.
> 
> I'm using 8.30, but tried also 8.20 and 8.40 wihtout success. I have also
> tried the Windows version (8.30) which works just fine, the only problem
> seems to be the Linux version.
> 
> I'm sure it must be a silly issue, but for the life of me, I'm not able to
> find the solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!