Problem with special (accented) charcacters

[Sergio Quintero]

Hi Marc, thanks for the bugs.kde link, it seems this is an old issue which
unfortunately is still causing problems in Mint 21.3 as well.

Please let me know if you get the problem solved, it's really annoying :(



Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 17:49:44 -0400
> From: Marc Palaus <marcpalaus at hotmail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with special (accented) charcacters
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> Hi Sergio,
>
> I had (well, I actually still have) the same issue, and it turns out
> it's related somehow to KDE (or more specifically QT) applications
> running as appimages, since I could replicate the same behavior in other
> apps. I even submitted a bug back in the day
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406583
>
> I want to see if that's still relevant when I upgrade to Kubuntu 24.04
> (running 20.04 at the moment).
>
> El 1/7/2024 a les 17:51, Sergio Quintero ha escrit:
> > 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!
>
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