[Solved] Greek accented characters and Qt Applications

Question

Hello.
This is my first day with Arch linux.
My problem has to do with greek accented characters like ά, ή, ό etc.
I can type these characters on my browsers, rox file manager and other applications but not on Qt based applications like Skype and TeXmaker.
At first when I tried to type ά on skype I got nothing.
Later I installed ibus-qt and now I get á instead of ά, é instead of έ, etc.
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS: I include the results of locale -a and locale commands in case it helps:
# locale -a
C
POSIX
el_GR
el_GR.iso88597
el_GR.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
greek
# locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
Last edited by Paris (2013-07-22 00:41:19)

Answer 1

I just created a /etc/rc.conf file and added:
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Athens"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-v16b" #it's Terminus font for console, just install terminus-font from community
CONSOLEMAP=
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
USECOLOR="yes"
This fixed my problem.