Bug#993971: kate: Kate puts a space when using some dead keys

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

Hi all,

> I did a test creating a file with the accented letters (my language is
> LANG=it_it), getting these results:
> 
> $ kate prova-accentate-àèéìòù-test
> 
> prova-accentate-ￜￜￜￜￜￜ-test

My guess is that there is a locale setup mismatch, and what happens is:
- filename is encoded in latin1
- kate expects utf8
- kate replaces the non-interpretable characters from latin1 with
	�	(Unicode "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER")
  which has hex utf-8 bytes
	EF BF BD
  which you see in the hd output:
> 00000010  ef bf bd ef bf bd ef bf  bd ef bf bd ef bf bd ef


I have never tried running KDE in a *non UTF-8* locale, that might be 
problematic.

I tried to reproduce this with 
	LANG=de_AT@euro kate
(this is a iso locale defined on my computer) but kate always uses utf8.

So I suggest that you make sure that your locales are properly set up,
and match with the settings of kde.

Best

Norbert

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