[SOLVED] Major weird issues with KDE/Qt apps and unicode

Question

Hi, I've tried to search for my problem, but nothing has showed up, so if this has already been answered, please forgive me.
Anyway, I use KDE as my primary desktop environment with SKIM as my unicode input method. After installing SKIM and Japanese fonts back when I first set Arch up, I have never had any issues with inputting unicode or displaying it in any program, whether that be irssi running through Konsole, or the song titles in Amarok. That all changed this afternoon, somehow...
The only major changes I can remember making to my system today are the following:
1.) I installed Awesome Window Manager to check it out
2.) I installed a pkgbuild of urxvt
3.) I made an .Xdefaults file and added these lines to customize my urxvt
After messing around with these things, I decided that Awesome wasn't a suitable WM for me, went back into KDE, and removed the package. I noticed a few strange issues after that though:
1. Foreign characters refuse to display properly in any terminal emulator.
2. Foreign characters come up as jumble in Konqueror now as well, when they never did before:
3. SKIM refuses to let me input Japanese characters with Anthy in any KDE app. The option for Japanese just isn't there, even though I have it installed:
4. Foreign characters display perfectly as tags for songs in Amarok, but if the music file itself has foreign characters in it, the title is garbled and the track is unplayable:
5. SKIM works absolutely fine in non-KDE apps like Firefox:
As seen in the last example, my Japanese fonts are all installed, and SKIM is working as it should in any non-KDE app, suggesting that there are no problems on that end. The issue seems to be with something in KDE, but I have no idea where to begin fixing it. Furthermore, I have no idea what could have caused this issue in the first place. I don't see how installing a window manager or terminal emulator package could have screwed up my fonts, and the .Xdefaults file I wrote just contained config information for urxvt. Nothing else. I even ended up deleting that, but it did not fix my problem.
If you could be of any help, I'd really appreciate it. I have a lot of files with foreign characters in them, and being able to read them is essential.
Last edited by LighthouseKeeper (2008-04-20 00:57:36)

Answer 1

I was just looking into locales, actually.
My current locale is:
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
and locale -a brings up:
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8
Is there anything here that could be causing this issue?
I'm curious how my locale got messed with in the first place if this is indeed the problem...
and here is my export:
declare -x COLORTERM=""
declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="kde"
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
declare -x DM_CONTROL="/var/run/xdmctl"
declare -x GS_LIB="/home/rael/.fonts"
declare -x GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/rael/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/rael/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0"
declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
declare -x GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/rael/.gtkrc:/home/rael/.kde/share/config/gtkrc"
declare -x HOME="/home/rael"
declare -x KDE_FULL_SESSION="true"
declare -x KDE_MULTIHEAD="false"
declare -x KDE_SESSION_UID="1000"
declare -x KONSOLE_DCOP="DCOPRef(konsole-19951,konsole)"
declare -x KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION="DCOPRef(konsole-19951,session-1)"
declare -x LOGNAME="rael"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x PATH="/opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games"
declare -x PWD="/home/rael"
declare -x QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
declare -x SESSION_MANAGER="local/broadway:/tmp/.ICE-unix/19566"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
declare -x SHLVL="2"
declare -x SSH_AGENT_PID="19539"
declare -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/ssh-MtdHR19538/agent.19538"
declare -x TERM="xterm"
declare -x USER="rael"
declare -x WINDOWID="41943050"
declare -x XCURSOR_THEME="default"
declare -x XDM_MANAGED="/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic"
declare -x XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
Last edited by LighthouseKeeper (2008-04-19 22:31:16)