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$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
vic@vic ~/projects/mykde (master *) $ sudo date     
[sudo] password for vic:
Пн. нояб. 17 10:07:42 MSK 2014
vic@vic ~/projects/mykde (master *) $ kdesudo date
Ðн. ноÑб. 17 10:07:47 MSK 2014


Is this a `kdesudo` bug?
(See similar issue which explains double encoding: http://gehrcke.de/category/technology/c ... -encoding/ )

checked whether "kdesudo locale" is still correct?

Here it is:

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$ kdesudo locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Can you please provide the output of "date" executed normally?
Also, as kdesudo is intended for graphical applications usually, does date work normally when executed in a root mode Konsole terminal?

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$ date
Сб. нояб. 29 12:01:26 MSK 2014

$ sudo date
[sudo] password for vic:
Сб. нояб. 29 12:01:30 MSK 2014

$ kdesudo date
Сб. ноÑб. 29 12:01:33 MSK 2014


bcooksley wrote:does date work normally when executed in a root mode Konsole terminal?

When I do `kdesudo konsole`:

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# date
Сб. нояб. 29 12:04:08 MSK 2014


The environment appears to be okay then. This does appear to be a misencoding of the output as you suspected. Can you confirm that the output is properly formed UTF-8?

> Can you confirm that the output is properly formed UTF-8?

Not sure what you mean.

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$ kdesudo date | hexdump
0000000 90c3 9fc2 90c3 bdc2 202e 90c3 b4c2 90c3
0000010 b5c2 90c3 bac2 202e 3120 3120 3a34 3631
0000020 303a 2031 534d 204b 3032 3431 000a     
000002d

$ sudo date | hexdump
0000000 9fd0 bdd0 202e b4d0 b5d0 bad0 202e 3120
0000010 3120 3a34 3631 323a 2030 534d 204b 3032
0000020 3431 000a                             
0000023

$ kdesudo date
Ðн. дек.  1 14:14:22 MSK 2014

$ kdesudo date | ./fix.py
Пн. дек.  1 14:14:25 MSK 2014

$ cat fix.py
#! /usr/bin/env python3
import sys

for line in sys.stdin:
    sys.stdout.write(line.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode("utf-8"))


Okay, I would suggest filing a bug report against kdesudo in this case. I'm not entirely sure though who provides kdesudo - you might need to file this with your distribution instead of with KDE.

Thanks, I submitted the bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdesudo/+bug/1398740