Problem with special (accented) charcacters

[Sveinn í Felli]

Had this problem maybe 2 years ago, on Linux Mint 21.1 / Cinnamon and 
Digikam (don't remember which version), but this was also the case in a 
couple of other KDE-based applications. Guess it was some underlying 
codepage/locale problem (KDE-modules on en_EN locale), setting up the 
kdecontrol package didn't solve anything because the locale-module was 
not present.
Upgrading to Linux Mint 21.2 and Digikam 8.0 got rid of this.

Maik/Gilles; how much KDE-dependent stuff is still running behind Digikam?

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli


Þann 2.7.2024 06:30, skrifaði Sergio Quintero:
> Thanks for answering.
> 
> The problem is entering those characters in any input field, not displaying
> them; I can write, say, "Álvaro" in any external program, then copy / paste
> it as a person tag in Digikam, and the program will display that tag
> correctly. In fact this is the only way I can use to enter tags or search
> for words with accents, which is really annoying.
> 
> I'm using SQLite
> 
> 
> *---*
> 
> *On Tue Jul 2 06:55:18 BST 2024 Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com
> <http://gmail.com>>  wrote:*
> 
> 
> *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*
> 
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 11:51 PM Sergio Quintero <squinterog75 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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!
>>
>