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I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having |
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problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double |
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quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. |
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If I use IceWM, typing these characters works fine in OOo. |
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I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and |
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LINGUAS="en en_GB" in my /etc/make.conf Nothing startling there. |
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I'm running xorg-X11 version 6.8.2-r6, KDE version 3.4.3, Open Office |
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2.01-r1, all packages from the stable branch. |
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In my /etc/xorg.conf I have the following entries for my keyboard: |
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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 "XkbModel" "logicdp" |
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Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" |
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EndSection |
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Being an old-fashioned Brit I have set up OOo to default to British |
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English. However, as I live in Europe, I use a Logitech Cordless Desktop |
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Pro US International keyboard, set to US International under KDE 3.4.3. |
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I do not use UTF-8 for character encoding, but default to ISO-8859-15, |
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to allow me to use the 'special' accented characters and the Euro sign. |
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OOo does not recognise either single quote (') or double quote (") |
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unless I press the AltGr key (right Alt key). I cannot compose accented |
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characters such as áàéèíìóòöuúù. The ¤ sign works as expected with a |
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US-international keyboard, using AltGr 5. |
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I tried setting OOo to US English, but this did not resolve the problem. |
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OOo stubbornly ignores both single and double quotes unless the AltGr |
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key is pressed. |
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Normally in 'US International' mode, both single and double quotes are |
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produced using the quote key and a space. Applications such as Mozilla |
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Thunderbird handle these quote characters correctly using the above |
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keyboard set up. Only OOo ignores these keystrokes combinations. |
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To persuade OOo to enter single or double quotes I have to use the |
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Alt-Gr key and ' or ". Strange indeed, OOo is the only application |
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which behaves like this under KDE. |
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Setting the xorg.conf Option "XkbVariant" "deadkeys" as suggested in |
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the OOo documentation does not change the quote keys behaviour in OOo. |
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I'm totally bewildered as to why OOo behaves so strangely under KDE, |
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while working perfectly under (for example) IceWM. |
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Has anyone else encountered this problem, or better still, have a work |
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round or solution for it? |
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Cheers, Dave. |
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