On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:29, Dave Jones wrote: > I didn't get these errors when I ran the oowriter2 command above, so I > guess my localdef for the en_GB.utf8 must have been OK. > > Case closed, an irritating problem fixed.
From another thread: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote: > For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the > locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. > Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. > > I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the > quote keys and Open Office work perfectly. Does this not work for you (# means run as root, $ means run as user)? # localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-15 en_GB.ISO-8859-15 $ LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 oowriter2 -- Bo Andresen
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