Bug#290045: kdm: Language=en_US or even de preventing German umlauts

[Enver Haase <enver.haase@gmx.de>]

Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.3.1-4
Severity: important
Tags: experimental l10n


I ran through a rather big dist-upgrade lately, so
I still did not sort out all of the things that broke :(
However, I figures that when setting kdm's
/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc from within KDE's internal tool for
that (Anmeldungsmanager in German, I'd guess logon manager)
I have a huge problem when setting the
"Language=" line. KDE gave me only en_US or de to choose
from and in both cases running a KDE session did not give
me the umlauts (üäöÄÖÜ) that I typed on the keyboard any more
for certain programs such as xterm or konsole. openoffice.org,
xev, kword all worked however.

I wonder if this has something to do with
#289143: kdm: does not source $HOME/.profile anymore

I'm running xfree86 4.3 and friends from today's Debian
unstable.

Regards,
Enver


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii  debconf                  1.4.41          Debian configuration management sy
ii  kdebase-bin              4:3.3.1-4       KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdelibs4                 4:3.3.1-4       KDE core libraries
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.16-6        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfam0c102              2.7.0-6         client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-7       GCC support library
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                 0.5.2-3         GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libpam-runtime           0.76-22         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                 0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt            3:3.3.3-7       Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-6       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxrender1              0.8.3-7         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System event recording an
ii  xbase-clients            4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
  kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm