Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] £ sign in OpenOffice

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am Dienstag, 17. August 2010 schrieb Mick:

> > > > I am puzzled by this problem.  One box of mine seems to be unable to
> > > > show the GBP sign in OpenOffice.  In any OOo application it shows a
> > > > capital A with umlauts and then shows the £ sign.
> > > >
> > > > In the OOo Language Settings I have selected as Default Currency "GBP
> > > > £ English (UK)" just as I have on two other boxen, which work fine.
> > > >
> > > > The locales are the same LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" on all of them.
> > >
> > > Different font sets installed?

Seeing a character as Ä or à and someting looks more like an encoding problem, 
because usually à and something is unicode interpreted as single-byte.

> > > I don't use OO so I cannot speak to it's internal settings.
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Mark
> >
> > I looked at this box again and it transpires that it also has this
> > problem in Kmail, not just OOo.  There don't seem to be any other
> > problems with the characterset or keyboard, only the GBP sign.
>
> Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console.  It is the X
> applications (including terminals) that seem to have the problem with the
> '£' sign.

I assume you use KDE because you mention KMail. What have you set in KDE’s 
keyboard layout (Personal -> Regional Settings)? (Or if not KDE, then in 
$your_DE’s settingss)
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