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From: Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 13:14:20
Message-Id: 4458AA27.4000901@xs4all.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems by "Jerônimo Backes"
1 Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/03/06 14:21:
2
3 >>>> What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected,
4 >>>> while all other applications work correctly under KDE.
5
6 >>> Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use
7 >>> some special keyboard layouts. Stay with ISO-8859-1 (the default
8 >>> encoding). KDE has issues with UTF-8 and certain keboard layouts.
9
10 >> As far as I know, I'm not using UTF-8 with KDE.
11
12 >> Could you please tell me how I can check if KDE is using UTF-8, or how I
13 >> can force KDE to use ISO-8859-1?
14
15 > Here goes the documentation about UTF-8 with Gentoo:
16 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
17
18 > Replace anything related to UTF-8 with ISO-8859-1 on your system.
19
20 Uh oh, looks like a major rework. Should keep me out of mischief!
21
22 >> Are you running KDE 3.4.3, or KDE 3.5?
23
24 > I'm with KDE 3.5.2 and everything is working okay.
25
26 It's probably time I moved on to KDE 3.5.2 anyway. Thank you very much
27 for all your help, much appreciated!
28
29 Cheers, Dave
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