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On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:23:08 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 08:28:11 you wrote: |
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> > On Friday 06 August 2010 21:13:06 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mick |
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<michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > I am puzzled by this problem. One box of mine seems to be |
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> > > > unable to show the GBP sign in OpenOffice. In any OOo |
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> > > > application it shows a capital A with umlauts and then |
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> > > > shows the £ sign. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > In the OOo Language Settings I have selected as Default |
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> > > > Currency "GBP £ English (UK)" just as I have on two other |
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> > > > boxen, which work fine. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The locales are the same LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" on all |
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> > > > of them. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Any ideas? |
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> > > > -- |
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> > > > Regards, |
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> > > > Mick |
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> > > |
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> > > No real idea but possibly: |
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> > > |
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> > > Different font sets installed? |
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> > > |
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> > > Incorrect/different font paths in xorg.config? |
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> > > |
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> > > I don't use OO so I cannot speak to it's internal settings. |
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> > > |
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> > > Good luck, |
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> > > Mark |
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> > |
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> > I looked at this box again and it transpires that it also has |
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> > this problem in Kmail, not just OOo. There don't seem to be |
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> > any other problems with the characterset or keyboard, only the |
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> > GBP sign. |
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> |
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> Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console. It is |
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> the X applications (including terminals) that seem to have the |
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> problem with the '£' sign. |
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Why not use xmodmap? Here's a line from my $HOME/.Xmodmap: |
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keycode 12 = 3 sterling threesuperior Greek_OMEGA |
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Evoke using "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" |
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Shift+3=£; Shift+AltGr+3=Ω; AltGr+3=³ |
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-- |
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Peter |
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Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc67 kernel-2.6.35-gentoo-r1 |
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AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor gcc(Gentoo: 4.4.4-r1) |
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KDE: 3.5.10 Qt: 3.3.8b |
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