Bug#598276: xdm doesn't forward correct keyboard characters in password field

[7T <7T@debian.org>]

Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.10-3
Severity: important

XDM refuse to connect an user who have a password including a french accent (like characters "é à è"), but login work in virtual console.
xdm "login" box allow confirmation of correct characters writing (the same "é à è").
keyboard (pc105, fr, oss ) is well configured with /etc/default/keyboard
Problem was the same on Debian Lenny and configuration with xorg.conf


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (980, 'testing'), (960, 'testing'), (176, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.4.4-2  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.35     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-6    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.6-1  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxaw7                       2:1.0.7-1  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxdmcp6                     1:1.0.3-2  X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.2-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.14-2   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.1-3    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.5-2  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                       1:3.5.8-1  X11 pixmap library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.6-1  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.7-1  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-9  /proc file system utilities
ii  x11-common                    1:7.5+7    X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+4      X11 utilities
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.5+2      X server utilities

xdm recommends no packages.

xdm suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:

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