> On Monday 28 August 2017 20:30:49 Uwe Brauer wrote:

   > can you type �?
No

   > normally you press "�" once and nothing appears, then if you press a, it comes 
   > out as �. 
Yes I know this is what happened before, but not now!

   > try various editors/toolkits....

Did that already
   > test with a new user, you can use kuser for that.

Also done, does not work, very strange.

   > ask in the forum for suse (?), 

Ubuntu it should be the forum, but I thought this is a trinity issue?
For you it works? What is you underlying distribution