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From: Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:09:50
Message-Id: 200605101255.40046.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved] by Dave Jones
1 On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:29, Dave Jones wrote:
2 > I didn't get these errors when I ran the oowriter2 command above, so I
3 > guess my localdef for the en_GB.utf8 must have been OK.
4 >
5 > Case closed, an irritating problem fixed.
6
7 From another thread:
8
9 On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote:
10 > For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the
11 > locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts.
12 > Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed.
13 >
14 > I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the
15 > quote keys and Open Office work perfectly.
16
17 Does this not work for you (# means run as root, $ means run as user)?
18
19 # localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-15 en_GB.ISO-8859-15
20
21 $ LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 oowriter2
22
23 --
24 Bo Andresen

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved] Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl>
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved] Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl>