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Bug#413055: kdelibs4c2a: KDE widget that accepts password behaves wrong when keyboard layout is not US



On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:18:19AM +0300, Max Dmitrichenko wrote:
> Package: kdelibs4c2a
> Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
> Severity: important
> Tags: l10n
> 
> I have configured my keyboard for two layouts "us" and "ru". If I switch keyboard to "ru" layout
> and KDE dialog prompting password appears then for every character I type into password field
> two asteriks appear. To reproduce it, you can run Control Center and in any administration applet
> click appropriate button to switch into admin mode and when dialog prompting root password
> appears switch the layout to different language and try to type something. Another way to
> reproduce it is KDE lock screen: try to enter password there with switched layout.
> 
> Plain Qt programs do not suffer from this bug. Checked on Psi.
> 
> I suspect that problem is with UTF-8, i.e. entering a two-byte UTF-8 character displays two "*".
>

It seems to be solved in KDE 4.2.2:

 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149369





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