Bug#499528: kate: some Vietnamese characters not displayed when utf-8 encoding is selected

[clayton <ckoeni@gmail.com>]

Package: kate
Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5
Severity: normal


On this page http://blog.langex.net/index.cgi/Vietnam/dsl_broadband.html 
you will find some Vietnamese words on the first two bulleted lines on 
the subject of "account ID" and "password". I edited this pyBlosxom blog 
entry using kate. When I pasted the Vietnamese words into kate (with 
utf-8 encoding selected) all of the letter 'a' with the additional 
markings on them, four in all, were rendered as little boxes in kate. 
The only 'a' that was visible was the unmarked one in the word 'ban'. As 
you can see from the final web page, the characters stored in the text 
file are correct. kate's rendering is not.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kate depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a             4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6                   2.7-13           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3.1-9        GCC support library
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.8b-5       Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6              4.3.1-9          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages kate recommends:
ii  kregexpeditor                 4:3.5.9-2  graphical regular expression edito

Versions of packages kate suggests:
ii  aspell     0.60.6-1                      GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii  ispell     3.1.20.0-4.4                  International Ispell (an interacti
pn  kate-plugi <none>                        (no description available)
ii  khelpcente 4:4.0.0.really.3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 help center for KDE
ii  konsole    4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5              X terminal emulator for KDE

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