Danish keyboard layout and QT applications

[El Tazar]

I'm having issues with getting QT applications to properly accept the input of my Danish keyboard when the rest of the system is
properly set up to accept UTF8 characters and using "LANG=en_DK.utf8".

Instead of getting the special characters of "æ" "ø" and "å" when pressing the keys, they seem to be mapped to "f" "x" and "e". A few other key mappings are messed up too.

If I default back to a Posix locale, QT applications will work properly but the rest of the applications (xterm for instance), will have issues with printing a few special characters (such as ` ' which one needs for properly display GCC compiler warnings) .
A temporary fix is thus starting every program with the LC_ALL set, like

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LC_ALL=POSIX krusader

Output of locale (the reason for this setup is that I need all the danish characters, but I still want the system to display messages in english and use . for the decimal point)

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LANG=en_DK.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
LC_COLLATE=en_DK.utf8
LC_MONETARY=en_DK.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_DK.utf8
LC_PAPER=en_DK.utf8
LC_NAME=en_DK.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=en_DK.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_DK.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_DK.utf8
LC_ALL=

Input device section from xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard1"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "dk"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "deadkeys"
EndSection

/usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir:

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en_US.UTF-8/Compose             en_DK.utf8
en_US.UTF-8/Compose:            en_DK.utf8

/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias

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en_DK.utf8                                      en_DK.UTF-8

/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir

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en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE:                 en_DK.utf8

If I somehow could get some debug info from the QT applications I could probably figure this out.

Thank you for any input to this matter.

[dek]

KDE doesn't honour the typical LANG variables, it takes the settings from kcontrol. You can use KDE_LANG instead. So some like this should work:

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KDE_LANG=en_US krusader

I don't know how to get POSIX this way, i don't think that's a valid language for KDE.