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Pawel K wrote on 09/05/06 17:28: |
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>>Does composing the Polish characters work for you |
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>>under applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird? |
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>>What specific Polish characters are you missing, and |
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>>how do normally compose them? |
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It sounds as if you want to be able to produce accented characters such |
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as ÁÉÍÓÚ áéíóú ÀÈÌÒÙ àèìòù ÄËÏÖÜ äëïöü. Am I right in this assumption? |
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> Unfortunately I can't type Polish charecters under |
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> mozilla as well (tried both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8). I |
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> expect to use right ALT + <character> e.g. right ALT + |
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> o should result with "ó" and now it results with just |
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> "o" both in Mozilla and OpenOffice. Left ALT + o opens |
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> F'o'rmat menu under OpenOffice. |
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Unfortunately, I don't know how much the Polish keyboard differs from |
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the us_intl layout. This might be a stupid suggestion, but try defining |
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your keyboard XkbLayout as us_intl. |
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Using the us_intl XkbLayout, typing the accented characters you want |
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works by hitting a quote ' and o to produce ó, without needing AltGr |
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(right Alt) pressed. Hitting ` and o produces an ò, " and o produces ö, |
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all without AltGr pressed. To produce a single ' or " you need to hit |
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' or " followed by a space. |
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For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the |
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locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. |
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Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. |
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I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the |
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quote keys and Open Office work perfectly. |
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> While configuring xorg with xorgconfig I've chosen the |
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> following options: |
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> Please answer the following question with either 'y' |
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> or 'n'. Do you want to select additional XKB options |
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> (group switcher, group indicator, etc.)? y |
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> Group Shift/Lock behavior: |
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> 1 Right Alt key switches group while pressed |
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I have none of these options set in my xorg.conf, just XkbLayout set to |
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us_intl, nothing specified for (no)deadkeys or group switching either. |
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You could try this in your xorg.conf: |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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Driver "kbd" |
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Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" |
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Option "CoreKeyboard" |
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Option "XkbModel" "pc105" |
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Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" |
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EndSection |
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After restarting X, try this from a xterm command prompt: |
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LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 oowriter2 |
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Try this, and let us know if this lets you to enter accented characters |
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in Open Office. |
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With or without LC_ALL specified, you should be able to enter accented |
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characters in Mozilla Thunderbird too with XkbLayout set to us_intl. |
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Cheers, Dave |
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